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Confederate Shipbuilding
Inbunden, 1987
297 kr
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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.
Royal Navy in European Waters During the American Revolutionary War
Av David Syrett
Inbunden, 1998
355 kr
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During the American Revolutionary War, Great Britain's Royal Navy faced foes that included, in addition to American forces, the navies of France, Spain and the Netherlands. In this operational history of a period that proved to be a turning point for one of the world's great naval powers, David …
Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy
The Journal and Letters of John M.Brooke
Av John M. Brooke, George M. Brooke
Inbunden, 2002
546 kr
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Loaded with previously unavailable information about the Confederate Navy's effort to supply its fledgling forces, the wartime diaries and letters of John M. Brooke (1826-1906) tell the neglected story of the Confederate naval ordnance office, its innovations, and its strategic vision. As …
Abandoned Ocean
A History of United States Maritime Policy
Av Andrew Gibson, Arthur Donovan
Häftad, 2001
399 kr
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THE ABANDONED OCEAN offers an in-depth appraisal of United States maritime policy from the establishment of a merchant marine immediately after the Revolutionary War through radical industry transformations of the late twentieth century. In this sweeping analysis of federal policies that promote, …
Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution
Häftad, 2002
370 kr
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For most of the 20th century, historians have thought that British naval policy was driven by the Anglo-German arms race. After examining a quantity of primary sources, Lambert concludes that Admiralty decision-making was in fact driven by factors unrelated to the German building programme. This …
Dead Men Tell No Tales
James Jeffers, Privateering, and Piracy in the Americas, 1816-1830
Av Joseph Gibbs
Inbunden, 2007
381 kr
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Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But when facing execution in 1831 for mutiny and murder, the previously enigmatic pirate Charles Gibbs recounted the infamous crimes of his harrowing life at sea in a self-aggrandizing series of ""confessions."" Wildly popular reading among …
Captain James Carlin
Anglo-American Blockade Runner
Av Colin Carlin
Inbunden, 2017
467 kr
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Captain James Carlin is a biography of a shadowy nineteenth-century British Confederate, James Carlin (1833–1921), who was among the most successful captains running the U.S. Navy’s blockade of Southern ports during the Civil War. Written by his descendent Colin Carlin, Captain James Carlin …
Guardian of Savannah
Fort McAllister, Georgia, in the Civil War and Beyond
Häftad, 2024
366 kr
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The remarkable story of how an earthen fort defense shielded a Southern city from the ironclad monitors of the U.S. NavyBuilt out of sand and mud, Fort McAllister was designed to serve as the southern anchor of the coastal defenses of Savannah, Georgia. Hastily constructed near the beginning of the …
Maritime History of the United States
The Role of America's Seas and Waterways
Häftad, 1989
280 kr
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A Maritime History of the United States is a pioneering study of the role of civilian maritime activities in the development of the United States. It stresses the crucial role played by the oceans, rivers, lakes, and canals in the history of the nation. The exploration and settlement of North …
Forty-niners 'Round the Horn
Inbunden, 1999
524 kr
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This is an account of the thrilling, and at times harrowing, maritime adventures of fortune hunters who sailed from the east coast of America around Cape Horn to California during the gold rush of 1849. The book includes extracts from journals and logbooks.
Captains Contentious
The Dysfunctional Sons of the Brine
Inbunden, 2009
363 kr
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This book offers original insights into a quirky quintet of naval heroes of the American Revolution. In ""Captains Contentious"" accomplished maritime historian Louis Arthur Norton observes that many of the captains of the Continental Navy were quite obstinate as compared to their British …
Lewis Coolidge and the Voyage of the ""Amethyst"", 1806-1811
Av Evabeth Miller Kienast, John Phillip Felt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
409 kr
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This is a firsthand account of a nineteenth-century sealing expedition that recalls the spirit of Herman Melville. Lewis Coolidge (1783-1871) was a nephew of Billy Dawes, the man who accompanied Paul Revere on his legendary midnight ride. An adventurous spirit seems to have run in the family: in …
USS Constellation" on the Dismal Coast
Willie Leonard's Journal, 1859-1861
Inbunden, 2013
600 kr
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Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem of the global power of the American sailing navy. When young William E. Leonard boarded the Constellation as a seaman for what proved to be a twenty-month voyage to the African coast, he …
Sea of Misadventures
Shipwreck and Survival in Early America
Inbunden, 2014
467 kr
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A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in the history of early America. Though it includes all the drama and intrigue afforded by maritime …
Patroons and Periaguas
Enslaved Watermen and Watercraft of the Lowcountry
Inbunden, 2014
409 kr
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Patroons and Periaguas explores the intricately interwoven and colorful creole maritime legacy of Native Americans, Africans, enslaved and free African Americans, and Europeans who settled along the rivers and coastline near the bourgeoning colonial port city of Charleston, South Carolina.Colonial …
