Confederate Shipbuilding
- ISBN-10
- 0872495116
- ISBN-13
- 9780872495111
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 110
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Univ of South Carolina Press
- Author
- William N. Still
Description
This work covers the real grounds for the Confederacy's failure to build a successful navy. The South's major problems with shipbuilding concerned facilities, materials, and labour. Each of these subjects is discussed, and the text concludes by joining these problems to the issues of the Civil War.
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