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

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Main Author: Leeman, William P.
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
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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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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