Year: 2010 Language: english Author: William P. Leeman Genre: History Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press ISBN: 978-0-8078-3383-4 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 309 Description: Americans early on looked with suspicion upon professional military officers, fearing that a standing military establishment would become too powerful or dangerous to republican ideals. Tracing debates about the nature of the nation, class identity, and partisan politics, the author explains how the country's reluctance to establish a national naval academy gradually evolved into support for the idea, and the Naval Academy was finally established in 1845. Naval officers soon became warriors, explorers, technicians, and diplomatic representatives to foreign countries, and it was understood that shipboard training did not suffice. Reformers pointed to the larger and better equipped navies of other countries. The national methods of educating officers were criticized for being limited to seaboard instruction in admittedly essential tasks of seamanship and navigation, when instruction in character development was also essential, as was training in such courses as science and international law. The book opens with a look at the officering of the Continental Navy, and follows with the debate over the need for a Navy in the Early Republic. It then looks at the fortunes of America’s Navy as it evolved with the growth of commerce, leading to wars with the Barbary states, Republican France, and Britain, as well as anti-piracy patrol in the Caribbean and Eastern Mediterranean. The author not only gives an account of how the Naval Academy came to be, but also surveys the early history of the Navy, the politics of the merging republic, and traces some biographies of interesting people, from well-known political figures to rather obscure naval officers.
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The Long Road to Annapolis
Language: english
Author: William P. Leeman
Genre: History
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 978-0-8078-3383-4
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 309
Description: Americans early on looked with suspicion upon professional military officers, fearing that a standing military establishment would become too powerful or dangerous to republican ideals. Tracing debates about the nature of the nation, class identity, and partisan politics, the author explains how the country's reluctance to establish a national naval academy gradually evolved into support for the idea, and the Naval Academy was finally established in 1845. Naval officers soon became warriors, explorers, technicians, and diplomatic representatives to foreign countries, and it was understood that shipboard training did not suffice. Reformers pointed to the larger and better equipped navies of other countries. The national methods of educating officers were criticized for being limited to seaboard instruction in admittedly essential tasks of seamanship and navigation, when instruction in character development was also essential, as was training in such courses as science and international law. The book opens with a look at the officering of the Continental Navy, and follows with the debate over the need for a Navy in the Early Republic. It then looks at the fortunes of America’s Navy as it evolved with the growth of commerce, leading to wars with the Barbary states, Republican France, and Britain, as well as anti-piracy patrol in the Caribbean and Eastern Mediterranean. The author not only gives an account of how the Naval Academy came to be, but also surveys the early history of the Navy, the politics of the merging republic, and traces some biographies of interesting people, from well-known political figures to rather obscure naval officers.
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