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The long road to Annapolis : the founding of the Naval Academy and the emerging American republic
- Title
- The long road to Annapolis : the founding of the Naval Academy and the emerging American republic / William P. Leeman.
- Author
- Leeman, William P.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 292 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Democracy and education > United States > 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
- United States Naval Academy History > 19th century
- United States > Navy > Officers > Training of > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 10-4401
- ISBN
- 9780807833834 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807833835 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009044822
- OCLC
- YBP 2009044822
- Author
- Leeman, William P.
- Title
- The long road to Annapolis : the founding of the Naval Academy and the emerging American republic / William P. Leeman.
- Imprint
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 10-4401