Erscheint: November 2026
Buch (Hardcover): Sachbuch
More Real Courage
Transforming Honor at the Early Naval Academy
Verlag:
University of Alabama Press Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35139506
EAN: 9780817322779
Erscheint: November 2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 135.–
Beschreibung
How discipline and conscience displaced anger and reputation in the early US Navy's crucible of leadershipMore Real Courage: Transforming Honor at the Early Naval Academy is a work of narrative history that traces a hard-fought moral transformation within the United States Navy's officer corps. Samuel J. Limneos reveals an institutional struggle between competing ideals of courage, as traditional notions of offense, reputation, and aggression collided with emerging values of restraint, loyalty, and duty. Through intensely human stories of conflict, discipline, and conscience, the book shows how honor was contested, defended, and ultimately reshaped into a standard grounded in moral courage and professional responsibility. Set across three pivotal decades at the Naval Academy, the study examines how midshipmen learned to navigate a culture inherited from European martial traditions while serving a rapidly changing republic. Limneos illuminates the professionalization of naval officers during the mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating how commitment, longsuffering, and performance of duty gradually displaced volatile codes of personal honor. Bridging social, cultural, and institutional history, More Real Courage fills a significant gap in naval historiography and speaks directly to enduring debates over character, leadership, and education in the armed forces. The book offers enduring moral lessons for naval historians, military professionals, and readers seeking to understand how national character is forged amid conflict, reform, and cultural change.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Samuel Limneos
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 280