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Mark C. Hunter contributes significantly to the debate about professionalization in the U.S. armed forces with this social history of U.S. naval officer education at Annapolis. Combining statistical and scholarly analysis based on original research, he reveals that through the Naval Academy, the Navy, in 1845, initiated a more structured form of education to assess potential officers on academic and practical seamanship skills. His findings show that by the 1850s, the Academy established summer cruises and school ships to teach navigation and command skills to recruits taken from civilian life.
“There is a great deal of valuable information in this book, but it will appeal more to academic researchers than to casual readers of naval history.”
— The Journal of America’s Military Past, Spring/Summer 2011
"Beautifully produced and illustrated. . . .Solid institutional histor[y] on the development of the U.S. Naval Academy."
