A Society of Gentlemen: Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy, 1845-1861

by Mark C. Hunter

A Society of Gentlemen is a social history of US naval officer education at Annapolis, Maryland from 1845 to 1861. By combing statistical and scholarly analysis based on original research, it reveals that through the Naval Academy, the US Navy exhibited signs of a professional organization during the antebellum era. The Naval Academy, founded in 1845, indoctrinated potential officers into the navy through a more structured form of education than used...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591143977
• ISBN13: 9781591143970
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"