{"product_id":"confederate-shipbuilding-william-n-still-9780872495111","title":"Confederate Shipbuilding","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA classic on the Confederacy's failure to build a successful navy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eConfederate Shipbuilding, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStill argues that the Confederate navy's difficulties in construction were mainly caused by military, geographic, and political factors--not by lack of resources or the inefficiency of Southern naval officers. Problems caused by internal dissension--states' rights quarrels and interservice rivalries--were characteristic of other theaters of the war; yet, Still shows, the navy was particularly affected, being the stepchild of a war department that was land-minded. This careful study therefore contributes not only to our understanding of the failure of the Southern shipbuilding program, but also to our knowledge of the reasons for the downfall of the Confederate States of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William N. Still\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0872495116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872495111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of South Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"William N. Still","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120404820223,"sku":"9780872495111","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f5c55a9c-1f5e-4952-8185-f74353e9c808.jpg?v=1687414135","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/confederate-shipbuilding-william-n-still-9780872495111","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}