Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945 (review)

Technological Change and the United States Navy shapes a new course through familiar waters. William M. McBride, a 1974 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, received his Ph.D. in history at Johns Hopkins University in 1989 and has taught history at James Madison University and the Naval Academy. This book, a revision of his doctoral dissertation, is an intellectual history of American naval technology that examines the dominance of the battleship mentality. It does so by using analytical concepts borrowed from social constructivism, though McBride argues that neither social constructivism nor technological determinism alone provide a sufficient explanatory framework for technological change in the U.S. Navy

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