The long road to Annapolis: the founding of the Naval Academy and the emerging American republic
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1. Verfasser: Leeman, William P. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2010
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Online-Zugang:DE-1046
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 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
The United States established an academy for educating future army officers at West Point in 1802. Why, then, did it take this maritime nation 43 more years to create a similar school for the navy? Leeman examines the origins of the United States Naval Academy and the national debate that led to its founding. Considering the development of the naval officer corps in relation to American notions of democracy and aristocracy, Leeman's analysis sheds new light on the often competing ways Americans perceived their navy and their nation during the first half of the nineteenth century
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 292 pages)
ISBN:0807833835
0807895822
1469604035
9780807833834
9780807895825
9781469604039

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