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nomic a nd mili tary developments which occurred as the Uni ted States emerged fro m its co loni al beginnings to dominate the western hemi sphere. T he sea novels of Jam es Fenimore Cooper, Ri chard He nry D a na and He rm an Me lv ill e establi s he d an Ameri can tradition of writing fro m the experience of a wo rking seaman later taken up by Jack London and a host of lesser-known writers. The uns peakable horrors of the slave trade, a v ita l part of America 's maritime heritage, are dra mati zed in narrati ves by Olaudah E quiano , Frederick Douglass and Harrie t Jacobs, among others, and more rece ntl y in novels by Alex Haley , Paule M a rshall and Charles Johnson. A fi na l chapter trac ing the continuity of tradi tional sea subjects, contex ts and sym bolic meanings in recent American literature a lso di scusses popul arthrillers and favo rites like Jaws , The Caine Mutiny and The Hunt f or Red October. Haske ll Springer has assembled thirteen comprehensive essays, each by a noted academic, that range from the coloni al era to the present. In between there are cha pte rs on genres , on particular wri ters, and on modes of ex pression. T here are memorable passages and lines quoted in every chapter. ANTHONY PI CCOLO
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Manhattanville College Purchase , New York Shark of the C onfederacy: The Story of the C S S Alabama, by Charles M. Robinso n III (Naval Institute Press , Annapo li s MD, 1995 , 2 12pp , illus, appen, notes, bi bli o, index, ISBN 1-55750-7287; $25 hc) In th is bi ography of the CSS Alabama , Ro bin son detail s the construction , crui ses , destruction and recent salvage of the most famo us warshi p of the South d uring the Civi l War. B uil t in L iverpoo l, England , by the firm of John Laird & Sons and launched on 15 May 1862 , the Alabama spent the nex t two years under the command of Captai n R aphael Sem mes and was responsible fo r the bonding or destruction of sixty-fi ve United States ships. Thi s accom pli shment is the more remarka ble considering that the South at the beginning of the C ivil War had no real blue-water maritime or naval tradition. The A labama, in conjunction with the Shenandoah, Florida and Georgia made up the South ' s fo ur major commerce crui sers, responsible for the loss of so many U nion shi ps by their destruction, SE/A HI STO RY 73 , SPRI NG 1995