Confederate Shipbuilding

by William N. Still Jr.

Book Overview

A classic on the Confederacy's failure to build a successful navy

In Confederate Shipbuilding, William N. Still Jr. cogently demonstrates the real grounds for the Confederacy's failure to build a successful navy. The South's major problems with shipbuilding concerned facilities, materials, and labor. To each of these subjects the author devotes a chapter, and then concludes by joining these problems to the larger issues of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872495116
• ISBN13: 9780872495111
• Release Date: April 1987
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"