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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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4016925/Sir-John-Fishers-Naval-Revolution
An award winning account of British Naval Policy before World War I

For most of the twentieth century, historians have thought that British naval policy was driven by the Anglo-German a…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4016941/The-Abandoned-Ocean
A concise analysis of the decay of the merchant marine through the failed policies that have been imposed upon the industry

The Abandoned Ocean offers an in-depth appraisal of United St…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4016992/Ironclads-and-Big-Guns-of-the-Confederacy
An inside look at the Confederacy's military science and technology

Loaded with previously unavailable information about the Confederate Navy's effort to supply its fledgling forces, th…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017123/Dead-Men-Tell-No-Tales
A chronicle of murders, mutiny, and mayhem carried out by a real pirate of the Caribbean

Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But shortly before execution for mutiny and…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017161/Guardian-of-Savannah
The remarkable story of how an earthen fort defense shielded a Southern city from the ironclad monitors of the U.S. Navy

Built out of sand and mud, Fort McAllister was designed to serve…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017400/A-Sea-of-Misadventures
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…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017612/Captain-James-Carlin
A portrait of one of the most successful blockade runners who brought vital supplies to Confederate forces

Captain James Carlin is a biography of a shadowy nineteenth-century British Co…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4017452/Patroons-and-Periaguas
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 alo…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700 https://uscpress.com/book-post/4016903/The-Royal-Navy-in-European-Waters-During-the-American-Revolutionary-War
A saga of battles, blockades, great fleet cruises, and, above all, failures and lost opportunities

During the American Revolutionary War, Great Britain's Royal Navy faced foes that incl…]]> Tue, 27 May 2025 08:36:55 -0700