William M Mcbride
Biographic Data
| ID | 1467705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William M Mcbride |
| GIVEN NAMES | William M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcbride |
| SIGNATURE | MCBRIDE W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Madison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9204-6131 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland
Reviewed by: Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control William M. McBride (bio) Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control. By John Brooks . London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. xiv+320. $135. The effectiveness of long-range naval gunnery during the Russo-Japanese War ushered in the era of the all-big-gun dreadnought. Although naval guns could fire great distances, achieving …
Making Waves
Resurrection
Reviewed by: Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor William M. McBride (bio) Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor. By Daniel Madsen. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. xii+241. $36.95. Immediately after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the U.S. Navy began a massive salvage operation to refloat ships and clear docking facilities for fleet use. Sunken ships, save for the sup…
Civil War Ironclads
William H. Roberts has produced an excellent study of the design and production of the U.S. Navy's Civil War monitors that will interest historians of technology, business, the military, and maritime affairs. Roberts effectively explores the "Union's industrial mobilization and the U.S. Navy's evolution of a flexible, effective system to manage ship acquisition of unprecedented size and technological complexity" (p. 1)
The Eagle Mutiny
Naval Warfare, 1815-1914 (review)
Lawrence Sondhaus has produced a useful and effective general history of the development and operations of the world's navies during the century prior to the First World War. While his primary focus is on the leading nineteenth-century sea powers (Britain, France, and Russia) Sondhaus clearly lays out the naval histories, relevant to war and the preparations for it, of Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, the United States, China, the Ottoman …
War Machines
What can we expect? What should we do? After September 11, many observers have suggested that current national defense specialists face a beast that Western society has never confronted. The novelty of it all seems nearly paralyzing. The two histories addressed in this review not only demonstrate the kind of perspective historians can bring to the national defense dialogue but also suggest that the current beast is hardly a novelty and does not h…
Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945
Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Yet each large technical innovation has met with resistance and even hostility from those officers who, adhering to a familiar warrior ethos, have grown used to a certain style of fighting. In Technological Change and…
The Philadelphia Navy Yard
After two hundred years of operation, the naval shipyard at Philadelphia closed in 1996. A significant Philadelphia institution, the yard's importance to the U.S. Navy ebbed and flowed over the years, and its survival, in a continuation of the history of its establishment, often relied more on political [End Page 810] and personal alliances than on naval utility. The history Jeffery Dorwart conveys in this well-researched and extensively illustra…
Monitor
War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS "Monitor".By David Mindell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. x+179; illustrations, maps, notes/references, bibliography
Under Ice
The Unstable Dynamics of a Strategic Technology
La politique de la technologie americaine navale illustre, durant les annees 1930, la dynamique instable refletant le pouvoir militaire qui autorisa la construction de nouveaux cuirasses
The Italian Navy in World War II
Anglo-American Naval Relations, 1917-19
The "Greatest Patron of Science"
Strategic Determinism in Technology Selection
In May 1904, Admiral Jackie Fisher, the driving force behind the creation of the British dreadnought battleship, declared that ship design must be dictated by strategy.' Fisher's pronouncement appears axiomatic, but warship design was (and remains) compromise resulting from internal service disputes over the correct strategic doctrine, the level of autonomy engineering specialists were allowed with regard to military decisions, and the influence …
Strategic Determinism in Technology Selection
Strategic Determinism in Technology Selection: The Electric Battleship and U.S. Naval-Industrial Relations WILLIAM M. MCBRIDE In May 1904, Admiral Jackie Fisher, the driving force behind the creation of the British dreadnought battleship, declared that ship design must be dictated by strategy.1 Fisher’s pronouncement appears axiomatic, but warship design was (and remains) a compromise re sulting from internal service disputes over the “correct” …
Challenging a strategic paradigm
Normal” Medical Science and British Treatment of the Sea Scurvy, 1753–75
Journal Article “Normal” Medical Science and British Treatment of the Sea Scurvy, 1753–75 Get access WILLIAM M. MCBRIDE WILLIAM M. MCBRIDE Department of History James Madison UniversityHarrisonburg, VA 22807 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 46, Issue 2, April 1991, Pages 158–177, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/46.2.158 Published: 01 April …
Challenging a strategic paradigm
Normal” Medical Science and British Treatment of the Sea Scurvy, 1753–75
Journal Article “Normal” Medical Science and British Treatment of the Sea Scurvy, 1753–75 Get access WILLIAM M. MCBRIDE WILLIAM M. MCBRIDE Department of History James Madison UniversityHarrisonburg, VA 22807 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 46, Issue 2, April 1991, Pages 158–177, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/46.2.158 Published: 01 April …
Anglo-American Naval Relations, 1917-19
The "Greatest Patron of Science"
Strategic Determinism in Technology Selection
In May 1904, Admiral Jackie Fisher, the driving force behind the creation of the British dreadnought battleship, declared that ship design must be dictated by strategy.' Fisher's pronouncement appears axiomatic, but warship design was (and remains) compromise resulting from internal service disputes over the correct strategic doctrine, the level of autonomy engineering specialists were allowed with regard to military decisions, and the influence …
Strategic Determinism in Technology Selection
Strategic Determinism in Technology Selection: The Electric Battleship and U.S. Naval-Industrial Relations WILLIAM M. MCBRIDE In May 1904, Admiral Jackie Fisher, the driving force behind the creation of the British dreadnought battleship, declared that ship design must be dictated by strategy.1 Fisher’s pronouncement appears axiomatic, but warship design was (and remains) a compromise re sulting from internal service disputes over the “correct” …
The Italian Navy in World War II
The Unstable Dynamics of a Strategic Technology
La politique de la technologie americaine navale illustre, durant les annees 1930, la dynamique instable refletant le pouvoir militaire qui autorisa la construction de nouveaux cuirasses
Under Ice
Monitor
War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS "Monitor".By David Mindell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Pp. x+179; illustrations, maps, notes/references, bibliography
Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945
Navies have always been technologically sophisticated, from the ancient world's trireme galleys and the Age of Sail's ships-of-the-line to the dreadnoughts of World War I and today's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines. Yet each large technical innovation has met with resistance and even hostility from those officers who, adhering to a familiar warrior ethos, have grown used to a certain style of fighting. In Technological Change and…
The Philadelphia Navy Yard
After two hundred years of operation, the naval shipyard at Philadelphia closed in 1996. A significant Philadelphia institution, the yard's importance to the U.S. Navy ebbed and flowed over the years, and its survival, in a continuation of the history of its establishment, often relied more on political [End Page 810] and personal alliances than on naval utility. The history Jeffery Dorwart conveys in this well-researched and extensively illustra…
The Eagle Mutiny
Naval Warfare, 1815-1914 (review)
Lawrence Sondhaus has produced a useful and effective general history of the development and operations of the world's navies during the century prior to the First World War. While his primary focus is on the leading nineteenth-century sea powers (Britain, France, and Russia) Sondhaus clearly lays out the naval histories, relevant to war and the preparations for it, of Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, the United States, China, the Ottoman …
War Machines
What can we expect? What should we do? After September 11, many observers have suggested that current national defense specialists face a beast that Western society has never confronted. The novelty of it all seems nearly paralyzing. The two histories addressed in this review not only demonstrate the kind of perspective historians can bring to the national defense dialogue but also suggest that the current beast is hardly a novelty and does not h…
Civil War Ironclads
William H. Roberts has produced an excellent study of the design and production of the U.S. Navy's Civil War monitors that will interest historians of technology, business, the military, and maritime affairs. Roberts effectively explores the "Union's industrial mobilization and the U.S. Navy's evolution of a flexible, effective system to manage ship acquisition of unprecedented size and technological complexity" (p. 1)
Resurrection
Reviewed by: Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor William M. McBride (bio) Resurrection: Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor. By Daniel Madsen. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2003. Pp. xii+241. $36.95. Immediately after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, the U.S. Navy began a massive salvage operation to refloat ships and clear docking facilities for fleet use. Sunken ships, save for the sup…
Making Waves
Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland
Reviewed by: Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control William M. McBride (bio) Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control. By John Brooks . London and New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. xiv+320. $135. The effectiveness of long-range naval gunnery during the Russo-Japanese War ushered in the era of the all-big-gun dreadnought. Although naval guns could fire great distances, achieving …
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