The long road to Annapolis : the founding of the Naval Academy and the emerging American republic

The long road to Annapolis : the founding of the Naval Academy and the emerging American republic /

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The United States established an academy for educating future army officers at West Point in 1802. Why, then, did it take this maritime nation 43 more years to create a similar school for the navy? Leeman examines the origins of the United States Naval Academy and the national debate that led to its...

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Main Author: Leeman, William P.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States Naval Academy > History > 19th century.
United States. > Navy > Officers > Training of > History > 19th century.
Military education > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Political culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Nationalism > United States > History > 19th century.
Democracy and education > United States > History > 19th century.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : armed ambassadors
  • Prologue : the maddest idea in the world
  • Defending the New Republic
  • Learning the ropes
  • A West Point for the Navy?
  • Academies and aristocracy in Andrew Jackson's America
  • The sword and the pen
  • Mutiny, midshipmen, and the middle class
  • Annapolis
  • Epilogue : homecoming.

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