Citizen Soldiers and Professional Engineers: The Antebellum Engineering Culture of the Virginia Military Institute

The founders and officers of the Virginia Military Institute, one of the few American engineering schools in the antebellum period, embedded a particular engineering culture into the curriculum and discipline of the school. This occurred, in some cases, as a consequence of struggles by the elite of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Jonson William
Other Authors: Science and Technology Studies
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29135
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-09292008-134606/