Confederate shipbuilding - Softcover

Still, William N. , Jr.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820302511 ISBN 13: 9780820302515

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 1969

Synopsis

This work covers the real grounds for the Confederacy's failure to build a successful navy. The South's major problems with shipbuilding concerned facilities, materials, and labour. Each of these subjects is discussed, and the text concludes by joining these problems to the issues of the Civil War.

About this title

About the Author

William N. Still Jr. is professor emeritus of history and former director of the Maritime History and Underwater Archaeology Program at East Carolina University. The Secretary of the Navy's Scholar in Naval History at the Naval Historical Center from 1989-1990, he is the author of American Sea Power in the Old World: The United States Navy in European and Near Eastern Waters, 1865-1917; Iron Afloat: The Story of the Confederate Armorclads; the editor of The Confederate Navy: The Ships, Men, and Organization, 1861-65; and a coauthor of Why the South Lost the Civil War.

Review

"...Confederate Shipbuilding [is] an important contribution to a developed understanding of America’s Civil War." -- Proceedings

"Thorough research, especially in manuscripts, sound perspective, and confident narration make Still’s work as watertight ... as the C.S.S. Virginia." -- The Courier

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0820302511
• ISBN 13: 9780820302515
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 110