Title The long road to Annapolis : the founding of the Naval Academy and the emerging American republic / William P. Leeman.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 292 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-281) 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.
Summary	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.
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Subject	United States Naval Academy -- History -- 19th century.
	United States Naval Academy.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	United States. Navy -- Officers -- Training of -- History -- 19th century.
	United States. Navy.
	United States Naval Academy -- Officers -- Training of -- History -- 19th century.
	United States. Navy -- Officers -- Training of -- History -- 19th century.
	Military education -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Military education -- Social aspects.
	United States.
	Military education.
	Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Political culture.
	Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Nationalism.
	Democracy and education -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
	Democracy and education.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Leeman, William P. Long road to Annapolis. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010 9780807833834 (DLC) 2009044822 (OCoLC)441211320
ISBN	9780807895825 (electronic book)
	0807895822 (electronic book)
	9781469604039 (electronic book)
	1469604035 (electronic book)
	9780807833834
	0807833835

Title The long road to Annapolis : the founding of the Naval Academy and the emerging American republic / William P. Leeman.

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