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Pablo Neruda's Ship Figureheads

A Poet-Collector's Muses and Companions

University of Alabama Press
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The First Fleets

Colonial Navies of the British Atlantic World, 1630–1775

University of Alabama Press
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A Fortified Sea

The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century

University of Alabama Press

A multidisciplinary examination of the role of military forts in the Caribbean during the age of European colonial expansion
 

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A Fortified Sea

The Defense of the Caribbean in the Eighteenth Century

University of Alabama Press

A multidisciplinary examination of the role of military forts in the Caribbean during the age of European colonial expansion
 

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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

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I Am Fighting for the Union

The Civil War Letters of Naval Officer Henry Willis Wells

University of Alabama Press

An insightful, detailed, and invaluable account of daily life in the Union Navy

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Clotilda

The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship

University of Alabama Press

Documents the maritime historical research and archaeological fieldwork used to identify the wreck of the notorious schooner Clotilda
 

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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

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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

 

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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

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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

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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

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To My Dearest Wife, Lide

Letters from George B. Gideon Jr. during Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan, 1853–1855

University of Alabama Press

A personal account of Commodore Perry’s landmark expedition to Japan and life in the antebellum navy

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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

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Engines of Rebellion

Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War

University of Alabama Press

A challenge to the prevailing idea that Confederate ironclads were inherently defective

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