The long road to Annapolis the founding of the Naval Academy and the emerging American republic /
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Format: | Electrònic eBook |
Idioma: | anglès |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2010.
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Accés en línia: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Taula de continguts:
- 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.