TY - BOOK AU - Leeman,William P. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - The long road to Annapolis: the founding of the Naval Academy and the emerging American republic AV - V415.L1 L44 2010 U1 - 359.0071/173 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - United States Naval Academy KW - History KW - 19th century KW - United States KW - Navy KW - Officers KW - Training of KW - Military education KW - Social aspects KW - Political culture KW - Nationalism KW - Democracy and education KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=565699 ER -