A Navy in the New Republic: Strategic Visions of the U.S. Navy, 1783-1812

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dc.contributor.advisorRidgway, Whitmanen_US
dc.contributor.authorSlaughter, Joseph Payneen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-02-01T20:23:18Z
dc.date.available2007-02-01T20:23:18Z
dc.date.issued2006-12-05en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study examines the years 1783-1812 in order to identify how the Founders' strategic visions of an American navy were an extension of the debate over the newly forming identity of the young republic. Naval historiography has both ignored the implications of a republican navy and oversimplified the formation of the navy into a bifurcated debate between Federalists and Republicans or "Navalists" and "Antinavalists." The Founders' views were much more complex and formed four competing strategic visions-commerce navy, coastal navy, regional navy, and capital navy. The thematic approach of this study connects strategic visions to the narrative of the reestablishment of the United States Navy within the context of international and domestic events. This approach leaves one with a greater sense that the early national period policymakers were in fact fledgling naval visionaries, nearly one hundred years before the advent of America's most celebrated naval strategist, Alfred Thayer Mahan.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/4196
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistory, United Statesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistory, Militaryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUnited Statesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNavyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEarly National Perioden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNaval Strategyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRepublicanismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolled1783-1812en_US
dc.titleA Navy in the New Republic: Strategic Visions of the U.S. Navy, 1783-1812en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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