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Engines of Rebellion: Confederate Ironclads and Steam Engineering in the American Civil War
May 13, 2021
It’s good news to see that scholarship like Saxon T. Bisbee’s Engines of Rebellion continues on the Confederate Navy’s ironclad program. Contemporary naval histories of the American Civil War like Admiral David Dixon Porter’s (1886) rather downplayed the South’s effort to maximise the latest technological advances in the naval state-of-the-art—in an asymmetric war effort against … CONTINUE READING ❯
Empire, Technology and Seapower: Royal Navy crisis in the age of Palmerston
July 21, 2015
Reassessment of the past invariably means reassessment of the picture painted by earlier historians, but for military and naval writers, it also frequently means challenging the uses others have made of previous experience as a window to contemporary problems. These two qualities are much apparent in Empire, Technology and Seapower, a further title in the … CONTINUE READING ❯