The long road to Annapolis [electronic resource] : the founding of the Naval Academy and the emerging American republic / William P. Leeman.

By: Leeman, William PContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010Description: xiii, 292 p. : illSubject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 359.0071/173 LOC classification: V415.L1 | L44 2010Online resources: Click to View
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-281) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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