Confederate Navy Chief - Stephen R. Mallory

Informationen zum Autor Joseph T. Durkin, S.J., was a Professor of History at Georgetown University and editor of John Dooley, Confederate Soldier: His War Journal. Klappentext "Mallory... directed the Confederate navy department with a great deal of skill and in the Davis cabinet was second in ability only to Judah P. Benjamin.... For [his] difficult job he was better fitted than any other Southern politician! and he made policy with a laudable imagination... the author has constructed a well-proportioned biography." - Mississippi Valley Historical Review; "Mallory was willing to back naval inventions! strategy! and ideas! undeterred by newness. The successes and failures of Confederate naval innovations require a precise balancing in order to determine Mallory's place in history. To a considerable extent this has been done by Father Durkin.... [Confederate Navy Chief also] throws much light on the larger subject of the successes and failures of Jefferson Davis." - The Journal of Southern History" Zusammenfassung The book tells of Stephen R. Mallory's support of naval inventions! strategy! and ideas. It also sheds light on the the successes and failures of Jefferson Davis. Durkin gives a well-balanced biography of Mallory and his life in the Confederate navy.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph T Durkin, Joseph T. Durkin
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2005
• EAN: 9780817352417
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5241-7
• No. of pages: 446
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (1850 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Militärgeschichte, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography / Autobiography, HISTORY / Military / Naval, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)