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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leeman, William P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military education--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.

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.

United States Naval Academy--History--19th century.

United States Naval Academy.

United States. Navy--Officers--Training of--History--19th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

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 forty-three more years to create a similar school for the navy? The Long Road to Annapolis examines the origins of the United States Naval Academy and the national debate that led to its founding.Americans early on looked with suspicion upon professional military officers, fearing that a standing military establishment would become too powerful, entrenched, or dangerous to republican ideals. Tracing debates about the nature of the nation,

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

979-88-908837-8-0

979-88-9313-353-0

1-4696-0403-5

0-8078-9582-2

OCLC:

656857206