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A Fortified Sea
The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Pedro Luengo and Gene Allen Smith
University of Alabama Press
A multidisciplinary examination of the role of military forts in the Caribbean during the age of European colonial expansion
A Fortified Sea
The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century
Edited by Pedro Luengo and Gene Allen Smith
University of Alabama Press
A multidisciplinary examination of the role of military forts in the Caribbean during the age of European colonial expansion
Too Far on a Whim
The Limits of High-Steam Propulsion in the US Navy
University of Alabama Press
Argues that the US Navy’s commitment to high-steam propulsion for its World War II fleet was a tactical, technological, and bureaucratic failure
I Am Fighting for the Union
The Civil War Letters of Naval Officer Henry Willis Wells
By Henry Willis Wells; Edited by Robert M. Browning Jr.
University of Alabama Press
An insightful, detailed, and invaluable account of daily life in the Union Navy
Clotilda
The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship
By James P. Delgado, Deborah E. Marx, Kyle Lent, Joseph Grinnan, and Alexander DeCaro; Foreword by Lisa D. Jones and Stacye Hathorn
University of Alabama Press
Documents the maritime historical research and archaeological fieldwork used to identify the wreck of the notorious schooner Clotilda
Valor and Courage
The Story of the USS Block Island Escort Carriers in World War II
University of Alabama Press
Recounts the stories of the USS Block Island CVE 21 and CVE 106 and their crews, many of whom served on both ships in the Atlantic and Pacific theatres
On Wide Seas
The US Navy in the Jacksonian Era
University of Alabama Press
A meticulously researched account of how the US Navy evolved between the War of 1812 and the Civil War
Cayman’s 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail
Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean
University of Alabama Press
The greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands
Cayman's 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail
Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean
University of Alabama Press
The greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands
Octopus Crowd
Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age
University of Alabama Press
A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia
To My Dearest Wife, Lide
Letters from George B. Gideon Jr. during Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan, 1853–1855
By M. Patrick Sauer and David A. Ranzan
University of Alabama Press
A personal account of Commodore Perry’s landmark expedition to Japan and life in the antebellum navy
Standing Watch
American Submarine Veterans Remember the Cold War Era
University of Alabama Press
The first book to capture and preserve the inside story of the exclusive brotherhood that manned the front lines of the Cold War
Engines of Rebellion
Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War
By Saxon Bisbee
University of Alabama Press
A challenge to the prevailing idea that Confederate ironclads were inherently defective
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