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

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leeman, William P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States Naval Academy > History > 19th century.
United States. > Navy > Officers > Training of > History > 19th century.
United States Naval Academy
United States. > Navy
1800-1899
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.
Nationalisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Démocratie et éducation > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Marine & Naval.
HISTORY > Military > Naval.
Armed Forces > Officers > Training of
Democracy and education
Military education > Social aspects
Nationalism
Political culture
United States
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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