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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 [electronic resource] : 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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Description

1 online resource (xiii, 292 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Long road to Annapolis (Online)

Alternative Title

Long road to Annapolis (Online)

Subject

United States Naval Academy > History > 19th century
United States. Navy > Officers > Training of > History > 19th century
Military education > Social aspects > History > United States > 19th century
Political culture > United States > History > 19th century
Nationalism > United States > History > 19th century
Democracy and education > United States > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-281) and index.

Access (note)

Access restricted to authorized users.

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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