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Title: Aggressive Philanthropy: Progressivism, Conservatism, and the William Volker Charities Fund.
Creator: McVicar, Michael J.
Abstract/Description: This essay explores the history of the William Volker Charities Fund, a significant charitable organization founded in 1932 by William Volker, a Kansas City furniture manufacturer. A self-describe progressive, Volker was a prominent Kansas Citian who earned the nickname Mr. Anonymous because he ssecretly gave away most of his personal fortune to create the city's private/public welfare system in the first half of the twentieth century. After Volker's death, Harold W. Luhnow, Volker's nephew,...
Show moreThis essay explores the history of the William Volker Charities Fund, a significant charitable organization founded in 1932 by William Volker, a Kansas City furniture manufacturer. A self-describe progressive, Volker was a prominent Kansas Citian who earned the nickname Mr. Anonymous because he ssecretly gave away most of his personal fortune to create the city's private/public welfare system in the first half of the twentieth century. After Volker's death, Harold W. Luhnow, Volker's nephew, used the fund's resources to move from progressive concerns related to social welfare to support free market, libertarian, and conservative intellectuals after World War II. Before collapsing in the late 1960s, the fund financed the early careers of five Nobel Prize winners; prominent figures in what would become the Religious Right; controversial revisionist historians; and, numerous conservative writers, publishers, and public figures.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_rel_faculty_publications-0007
Format: Citation

Title: The Illustrated American and the Lakota Ghost Dance.
Creator: Bearor, Karen
Abstract/Description: The ceremonial dance contemporary reporters dubbed the ghost dance has inspired shelves of books and hundreds of articles, both popular and scholarly. Called the spirit dance by the Lakota, it was part of a revivalist and millennialist movement sweeping through Native American tribes in the West in the late 1880s and early 1890s. As such, it remains cemented in the country's collective consciousness by its association with the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890, that inglorious symbol...
Show moreThe ceremonial dance contemporary reporters dubbed the ghost dance has inspired shelves of books and hundreds of articles, both popular and scholarly. Called the spirit dance by the Lakota, it was part of a revivalist and millennialist movement sweeping through Native American tribes in the West in the late 1880s and early 1890s. As such, it remains cemented in the country's collective consciousness by its association with the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890, that inglorious symbol for both the end of the Indian wars and the failure of governmental and reformist policies.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_arh_faculty_publications-0001, 10.1353/amp.2011.0009
Format: Citation

Title: Classics and Digital Humanities.
Creator: Romano, Allen
Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_clas_faculty_publications-0001
Format: Citation

Title: Constructing a Historiography of Mexican Women and Gender.
Creator: Buck Kachaluba, Sarah A.
Abstract/Description: This article outlines the historiographical importance of the International Colloquium of Women's and Gender History in Mexico, particularly in the context of the author's own scholarship, especially her dissertation. It argues for the need for women's and gender history, and for a dialogue, by means of which these separate but related bodies of scholarship can inform the other. It includes a summary of the author's dissertation and its theoretical influences, a review of historical topics...
Show moreThis article outlines the historiographical importance of the International Colloquium of Women's and Gender History in Mexico, particularly in the context of the author's own scholarship, especially her dissertation. It argues for the need for women's and gender history, and for a dialogue, by means of which these separate but related bodies of scholarship can inform the other. It includes a summary of the author's dissertation and its theoretical influences, a review of historical topics discussed at the first two conferences of the International Colloquium of Women's and Gender History, and a discussion of the historiographical implications of such developments.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_library_faculty_publications-0001, 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00508.x
Format: Citation

Title: El control de la natalidad y el día de la madre: política feminista y reaccionaria en México, 1922- 1923.
Creator: Buck Kachaluba, Sarah A.
Abstract/Description: El artículo la política feminista mexicana durante el periodo de 1922-1923. Feministas como Margaret Sanger y Esperanza Velázquez Bringas expusieron que el país necesitaba una política acerca del control de la natalidad. Ellas argumentaban que los programas patrocinados del Estado para este control podrían liberar las mujeres y proporcionar los medios para la modernización y desarrollo.
Date Issued: 2001
Identifier: FSU_migr_library_faculty_publications-0008
Format: Citation

Title: Prelude to Disaster: Defending Confederate New Orleans.
Creator: Zwilling, Andrew, Jones, Jim, Grant, Jonathan, Hadden, Sally, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the defense of Confederate New Orleans during American Civil War, specifically during the year 1861 and the first four months of 1862. The importance of New Orleans to the South is first analyzed in order to give context for its defense. Then both the Confederate military perspective and the city's perspective are taken into account, resulting in the conclusion that the defense can be seen as an inevitable microcosm of the problems that generally plagued the Confederacy....
Show moreThis thesis examines the defense of Confederate New Orleans during American Civil War, specifically during the year 1861 and the first four months of 1862. The importance of New Orleans to the South is first analyzed in order to give context for its defense. Then both the Confederate military perspective and the city's perspective are taken into account, resulting in the conclusion that the defense can be seen as an inevitable microcosm of the problems that generally plagued the Confederacy. Lack of material resources and manpower, confusion and division between the local population and Confederate authority, disorganized and compartmentalized leadership and overwhelming Federal industrial advantage are all issues that can be seen both in the defense of New Orleans and the Confederacy as a whole.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0471
Format: Thesis

Title: From Mosquito Clouds to War Clouds: The Rise of Naval Air Station Banana River.
Creator: Euziere, Melissa Williford, Jones, James P., Conner, V.J, Green, Elna C., Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Naval Air Station Banana River was created as a result of increased military appropriations to defend the Atlantic Coast of the United States of America. The Hepburn Board was charged with finding appropriate sites for new naval installations that could better protect American citizens from attacks along the coastline. After an exhaustive study, a site in Brevard County was selected to become a naval patrol sea plane base. County and city leaders in Brevard rallied around the construction of...
Show moreNaval Air Station Banana River was created as a result of increased military appropriations to defend the Atlantic Coast of the United States of America. The Hepburn Board was charged with finding appropriate sites for new naval installations that could better protect American citizens from attacks along the coastline. After an exhaustive study, a site in Brevard County was selected to become a naval patrol sea plane base. County and city leaders in Brevard rallied around the construction of the Naval Air Station Banana River that they had lobbied the Hepburn Board to bring to their county. They threw their support behind the station throughout its construction and celebrated its commissioning in October 1940. Pearl Harbor brought changes to NAS Banana River as German U-boats stalked the Florida coast and the station's mission was expanded to include patrol duty, search and rescue, bombardier training, sea-plane pilot training, and communications research. Buildings sprang up in response to the increase in personnel needed to fill all of the programs. Brevard County welcomed the sailors into their towns, homes, and lives. Although the base itself was isolated, there were a number of activities on and off base to keep the sailors busy. The county was felt the economic impact of the base with an increased number of employment opportunities, a rise in retail and food service profits, and a demand for additional infrastructure to support the station. Naval Air Station Banana River was deactivated in 1947 to the dismay of the people in Brevard County. Their disappointment did not last long when a few years later the base was reactivated to serve as the headquarters of the newly formed Joint Long Range Proving Ground, a testing site for the American rocket and missile program. The existence of the Naval Air Station Banana River and the infrastructure created to support it helped to bring missile program, and a few years later the space program, to Brevard County.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0489
Format: Thesis

Title: The Poetics of Black: Manet's Masked Ball at the Opera and Baudelaire's Poetry and Art Criticism.
Creator: Pride, Jennifer S., Weingarden, Lauren S., Emmerson, Richard K., Jolles, Adam, Department of Art History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Ãdouard Manet's "Masked Ball at the Opera" of 1873 shares formal and thematic relationships with Charles Baudelaire's poetry and art criticism. Although previous scholars have suggested visual sources for Manet's paintings, I argue that Baudelaire's poetry was the textual paradigm for Manet's Masked Ball. My argument considers the roles of women, masks and the danse macabre in these works as analogous in both form and content. The women in the Masked Ball parallel those in Baudelaire's...
Show moreÃdouard Manet's "Masked Ball at the Opera" of 1873 shares formal and thematic relationships with Charles Baudelaire's poetry and art criticism. Although previous scholars have suggested visual sources for Manet's paintings, I argue that Baudelaire's poetry was the textual paradigm for Manet's Masked Ball. My argument considers the roles of women, masks and the danse macabre in these works as analogous in both form and content. The women in the Masked Ball parallel those in Baudelaire's poetry, such as "To a Passerby" and "The Mask," and his art criticism in The Painter of Modern Life. The women in both the image and text are constructed with oppositional concepts, words and phrases that indicate their role in nineteenth-century Paris and the many masks they wear in daily life. Next I examine the ways in which Haussmannization, the destructive reordering of Paris during the middle part of the century, presented new problems and opportunities for the artist-as-flâneur. Baudelaire's poem "The Crowds," corresponds to Manet's painting in that both use the mask as a means by which the poet/flâneur/masked ball participants assume a double-identity as they experience the spectacle of modernity as part of the crowd but distanced from it. Lastly, I argue that in the Masked Ball Manet modernized traditional danse macabre schema by conflating it with funereal attributes. Like the painting, Baudelaire's poem, "Danse Macabre," is a modernized version of the schema due to its contemporary poetic form comprising oppositional pairs, such as life/death, and thus establishing both as signifiers for the funeral of Parisian culture, specifically word and image, under Haussmannization. Ultimately, I demonstrate that the binary structures of the Manet's painting and Baudelaire's poetry develop from the same social milieu and are thus reciprocal objects that signify the prevailing cultural condition of nineteenth-century Paris.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0456
Format: Thesis

Title: The Force of Nature: The Impact of Weather on Armies during the American War of Independence, 1775-1781.
Creator: Engel, Jonathan T., Hadden, Sally, Harper, Kristine, Jones, James, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the impact that weather had on armies during the American War of Independence. It argues that weather affected the operations of both American and British armies in three areas: strategy, influencing the planning of campaigns; tactics, affecting the course of battles; and administration, adding to the daily work of maintaining armies in the field and keeping them functional. Year after year, in all four seasons, generals and soldiers had to cope with phenomena such as...
Show moreThis thesis examines the impact that weather had on armies during the American War of Independence. It argues that weather affected the operations of both American and British armies in three areas: strategy, influencing the planning of campaigns; tactics, affecting the course of battles; and administration, adding to the daily work of maintaining armies in the field and keeping them functional. Year after year, in all four seasons, generals and soldiers had to cope with phenomena such as rain, snow, heat, and fog. Weather was capricious, sometimes helping one army and harming the other, and sometimes hindering both armies. Generals often tried to use the weather to gain an advantage and to mitigate the damage weather might do to their armies. The first chapter addresses weather's activity in early years of the war, up to the end of 1777. The second chapter focuses on the war in the north from 1778 to the end of major fighting in 1781, and the final chapter covers the impact of weather in that same period in the southern theater, concluding with the Franco-American victory at Yorktown. No previous study has concentrated on weather's role in the war as a whole. While weather was not the sole force that guided the armies' actions or decided the outcomes of battles or the war, this thesis demonstrates how the weather helped shape the Revolutionary War alongside other better-recognized factors such as political, economic, or logistical issues, and warrants recognition as such.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0562
Format: Thesis

Title: A Mississippi Burning: Examining the Lynching of Lloyd Clay and the Encumbering of Black Progress in Mississippi during the Progressive Era.
Creator: Dorsey, Albert, Jones, Maxine D., Montgomery, Maxine L., Jones, James P., Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: When twenty-two year old African American Lloyd Clay was strung up from an old elm tree, burned alive, and his body riddled with bullets by a white lynch mob of approximately one-thousand people on the corner of a major intersection in Vicksburg, Mississippi, nothing happened. Vicksburg in the year 1919 was typical of many other cities throughout the United States deep South. When Clay was unjustly crucified, no whites from the mob were put on trial; and there was no backlash or retaliation...
Show moreWhen twenty-two year old African American Lloyd Clay was strung up from an old elm tree, burned alive, and his body riddled with bullets by a white lynch mob of approximately one-thousand people on the corner of a major intersection in Vicksburg, Mississippi, nothing happened. Vicksburg in the year 1919 was typical of many other cities throughout the United States deep South. When Clay was unjustly crucified, no whites from the mob were put on trial; and there was no backlash or retaliation from the black Vicksburg citizenry. As a matter of fact, Clay's mother was even told by whites not to go to the morgue to identify her dead son's body; it would be best, they suggested, if she stayed out of it. This case study will specifically situate Vicksburg, Mississippi, and the lynching of Lloyd Clay within the context of the last decade of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century, called by many historians, the Progressive Era. It will examine why black lynchings increased after slavery was constitutionally abolished and the Reconstruction Era in the American South came to an end. It will also juxtapose Mississippi lynchings, blamed for the maintenance of economical, political, and social white privilege, against the Progressive Era to show how those lynchings encumbered black economic, political, and social progress.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0686
Format: Thesis

Title: Realistic Religion and Radical Prophets: The Stfu, the Social Gospel, and the American Left in the 1930S.
Creator: Youngblood, Joshua C., Conner, Valerie Jean, Jones, James P., Grant, Jonathan, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union was an interracial organization of tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and wage laborers that emerged from northeastern Arkansas in the mid-1930s. The STFU became the most important social action on the part of landless agricultural workers during the Great Depression and one of the most significant critics of the New Deal and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. This study examines the STFU as a dramatic expression of the Social Gospel in the South during...
Show moreThe Southern Tenant Farmers' Union was an interracial organization of tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and wage laborers that emerged from northeastern Arkansas in the mid-1930s. The STFU became the most important social action on the part of landless agricultural workers during the Great Depression and one of the most significant critics of the New Deal and the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. This study examines the STFU as a dramatic expression of the Social Gospel in the South during the 1930s and as a representation of the cooperative work of radical and moderate American leftists during the interwar period. From its inception, the STFU faced the violent opposition of planters and local authorities, yet the union managed to survive until the end of the decade as a result of talented leadership, the effectiveness of its organizational strategy, and the patronage of influential leftist leaders around the nation. The plight of the sharecroppers attracted the concern and attention of the eastern liberal establishment, Socialist leaders such as Norman Thomas, and the Communist Party. However, southern progressive leaders such as Harry Leland Mitchell, a former sharecropper turned political radical from west Tennessee, always led the union. The STFU also drew members of a new generation of southern seminary-trained social activists. These "Radical Prophets," through work with southern labor and national organizations such as the NAACP and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, injected the Social Gospel theology taught by social activists and university professors such as Alva Taylor at Vanderbilt University with a Marxist inspired desire to revolutionize southern economic and social institutions in keeping with the philosophy of modern theologians such as Reinhold Niebuhr. Southern labor leaders, radical ministers, regional black leaders, and white and black country preachers, combined in the STFU, and the potent mixture allowed the union to quickly organize thousands of the nation's most impoverished and disenfranchised in a valiant though ill-fated effort to reform southern society. This thesis also presents the STFU as a microcosm of the dissolution of the American left consensus as the Great Depression came to an end. By the early 1940s, the union had all but disappeared after having reached a peak of 35,000 members. Although the pressures associated with affiliation with an international union and the changing demographics of the Delta South were the direct causes of the union's failure, ideological rifts between the radical and moderate leaders of the union, as closely observed below in the split between the "Radical Prophets" Howard Kester and Claude Williams, hastened the STFU's demise. By analyzing the letters and first-hand accounts of STFU leaders and organizers in the context of radical Christianity and leftist political and social thought, this study provides a new perspective concerning the STFU which addresses the place of the union in 1930s intellectual history and as a manifestation of the often overlooked radical progressive tradition that existed in the South during the period.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0764
Format: Thesis

Title: The Illustrated Apocalypse Cycle in the Liber Floridus of Lambert of Saint-Omer.
Creator: Woodward, Elizabeth, Gerson, Paula, Emmerson, Richard, Jones, Lynn, Leitch, Stephanie, Department of Art History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the series of Apocalypse illustrations appearing in a thirteenth-century copy of the Liber Floridus, MS lat. 8865 in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Liber Floridus is an illustrated encyclopedia completed in 1120 by Lambert, a canon of the church of Nôtre Dame in Saint-Omer in northern France. The autograph manuscript of the Liber Floridus has survived to the present day (Ghent, University Library MS 92), along with nine copies. Lambert's encyclopedia is a...
Show moreThis thesis examines the series of Apocalypse illustrations appearing in a thirteenth-century copy of the Liber Floridus, MS lat. 8865 in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Liber Floridus is an illustrated encyclopedia completed in 1120 by Lambert, a canon of the church of Nôtre Dame in Saint-Omer in northern France. The autograph manuscript of the Liber Floridus has survived to the present day (Ghent, University Library MS 92), along with nine copies. Lambert's encyclopedia is a compilation of excerpts from a range of Classical and medieval writers, and a number of the texts in the Liber Floridus are or were accompanied by figural illustrations. The Ghent autograph once contained a series of full-page miniatures depicting scenes from the Apocalypse of Saint John. Though fragments are present in several of the copies, this Apocalypse cycle is now missing from the autograph manuscript. MS lat. 8865 is the only copy to have retained a complete series of Apocalypse illustrations. This thesis argues that its iconography is an accurate reflection of the lost cycle in the autograph manuscript. Because of the survival of the autograph manuscript, the Liber Floridus has generated a substantial amount of scholarly interest. As a result, the series of Apocalypse images, which is no longer present in the autograph, has gone largely unnoticed. By examining the relationship between the Apocalypse cycle and the other textual and figural elements of MS lat. 8865, I demonstrate that the cosmological and eschatological elements of the Liber Floridus are visually and thematically related, and were so in the autograph. In his choice of texts and illustrations, Lambert tries to structure the universe and situate himself in history and time – in relation to past events and to events of the apocalyptic future. In Lambert's original, the use of similar pictorial arrangements in the Apocalypse cycle and in the rest of the Liber Floridus encyclopedia, particularly the didactic cosmological diagrams, strengthens the thematic connection between these schema and the Apocalypse illustrations. The specific selection of texts and the arrangement of the components in MS lat. 8865 reveal a significant concern with the end times and with systematizing knowledge.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0767
Format: Thesis

Title: Witness to Glory: Lieutenant-Général Henri-Gatien Bertrand, 1791-1815.
Creator: Delvaux, Steven Laurence, Horward, Donald D., Hargreaves, Alec, Oldson, William, Creswell, Michael, Grant, Jonathan A., Department of Art History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Henri-Gatien Bertrand is perhaps the least known of the generals who occupied a prestigious position near Napoleon during the years of the First French Empire. Born in 1773 to a family of the lesser nobility, Bertrand's life encompassed all of the great and momentous events that shook France and Europe during the ensuing fifty years. He played a direct role in many of these events. Commissioned into the French army as an engineer officer in 1793, Bertrand served as an engineer during the...
Show moreHenri-Gatien Bertrand is perhaps the least known of the generals who occupied a prestigious position near Napoleon during the years of the First French Empire. Born in 1773 to a family of the lesser nobility, Bertrand's life encompassed all of the great and momentous events that shook France and Europe during the ensuing fifty years. He played a direct role in many of these events. Commissioned into the French army as an engineer officer in 1793, Bertrand served as an engineer during the siege of Metz in 1794, in the Egyptian Campaign from 1798-1801, at the camp de Boulogne from 1802-04, and during the 1809 Campaign. He also served as an aide-de-camp to Napoleon during the 1805, 1806, 1807, and 1808 Campaigns. In 1811, the Emperor appointed him to serve as the Governor General of the Illyrian Provinces where he remained until being recalled to the army in 1813. He served in the ensuing 1813 Campaign as the commander of the 4th Corps, leading his corps in the battles of Lützen, Bautzen, Gross Beeren, Dennewitz, Wartemburg, Leipzig, and Hanau. At the end of that campaign, Napoleon elevated Bertrand to the position of Grand Marshal of the Palace. Bertrand retained that position during the 1814 and 1815 Campaigns and throughout the Emperor's exiles to Elba and St. Helena. He remained with Napoleon on St. Helena until the Emperor's death in 1821. Bertrand's service to France and Napoleon during these many years is singular for its length and the devoted manner in which he performed it. He possessed an unshakeable conviction in Napoleon's greatness and he conducted himself in both victory and adversity in a distinguished and dignified manner that speaks highly of his character and integrity. He garnered the admiration, respect, and esteem of many for his unimpeachable service to France and Napoleon during these momentous years.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0772
Format: Thesis

Title: Carrier Battles: Command Decision in Harm's Way.
Creator: Smith, Douglas Vaughn, Jones, James Pickett, Tatum, William J., Grant, Jonathan, Horward, Donald D., Sickinger, James, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation considers the transformation of the United States Navy from a defensive-minded coastal defense navy during the first century of this nation's history into an offensive-mindset, risk taking navy in the very early stages of World War II. More precisely, since none of the most significant leaders of the U.S. Navy in World War II were commissioned prior to the Spanish-American War and none participated in any significant offensive operations in the First World War, this...
Show moreThis dissertation considers the transformation of the United States Navy from a defensive-minded coastal defense navy during the first century of this nation's history into an offensive-mindset, risk taking navy in the very early stages of World War II. More precisely, since none of the most significant leaders of the U.S. Navy in World War II were commissioned prior to the Spanish-American War and none participated in any significant offensive operations in the First World War, this dissertation examines the premise that education, rather than experience in battle, accounts for that transformation. In evaluating this thesis this dissertation examines the five carrier battles of the Second World War to determine the extent to which the inter-war education of the major operational commanders translated into their decision processes, and the extent to which their interaction during their educational experiences transformed them from risk-adverse to risk-accepting in their operational concepts. Thus the title for my dissertation: Carrier Battles: Command Decision in Harm's Way. Almost all of the top-level leaders of the U.S. Navy in World War II had two things in common. They invariably graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy from 1904 through 1912, and from the U.S. Naval War College from 1923 through 1937. Thus none had any experience in the Spanish-American War, and, due primarily to lack of many opportunities for offensive action in the First World War, few had any real experience of consequence in that war either. The question that obviously springs to mind, then, is how did these top naval leaders, brought up in the culture of a Navy that had been developed as a coastal defense Service during the first hundred years of its existence, develop a risk-taking, offensive attitude without any real opportunity to refine the skills necessary for offensive operations save in the classroom? That has become the central theme around which this dissertation has been structured. In the formative stages of their education at the Naval Academy something profoundly influenced the Midshipmen in inculcating a long-term commitment to naval service. Though several formative events surround their socialization in the military, one in particular seems to stand out. That would be the realization of the position of the United States as a player on the world stage emanating from President Theodore Roosevelt's ordering of the "Great White Fleet" around the world in a cruise that marked the emergence of the United States in global politics. That event solidified in the Annapolis Midshipmen the realization of the role the U.S. Navy would of necessity play as America emerged from a survival instinct for isolation from European and world involvements to active participation in world affairs. Moreover, fortified by the naval theories of Alfred Thayer Mahan, the Officer candidates at Annapolis realized the geo-strategic implications of that participation. Of necessity, the U.S. Navy would spearhead U.S. global involvement, and by virtue of their eminent commissioning and potential for leadership positions in that Navy, their own destinies would be tied to that of United States global engagement. Several authors have speculated as to what accounts for the success of the U.S. Navy in World War II -- and particularly in the early stages of that war. Luck, naval war gaming at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, breaking of Japanese naval codes, and Divine Intervention have all been postulated as credible rationale for that success. Though all of these were important -- none can adequately account for the aggressive, risk-accepting decisions that the top U.S. Naval operational leaders were able to embrace. The institutionalized naval educational process stands out as enabling in their relationship to decisive decision and action and fundamental understanding among the leaders interacting in combat of what they could expect from those fighting with them. Foremost among these is the so-called "Green Hornet," -- so named because of the color of its binding, which provided an extremely concise and rote method for approaching and analyzing a problem and formulating a sound course of action appropriate to the situation at hand. Hence the actual title of the "Green Hornet," -- Sound Military Decision. The main thesis explored in this dissertation is that education rather than experience best accounts for U.S. Navy success in operations in World War II, and that Sound Military Decision can be appropriately established as the main element of that education which produced the success enjoyed. This thesis is evaluated by analyzing the naval decision process in the five carrier battles of the Second World War: The Battle of the Coral Sea; The Battle of Midway; The Battle of the Eastern Solomons; The Battle of Santa Cruz; and The Battle of the Philippine Sea. The institutions of higher education of the various Services today have deviated significantly and unacceptably from the successful approach they maintained during the inter-War period. Today's education for Officers is very descriptive with respect to theory, operational art, doctrine, technology, techniques and tactics, as opposed to a much more proscriptive and interactive (among students) approach employed between the World Wars. It is hoped that the research completed for this study might be a catalyst for consideration of a return to an approach to education that will more fully capture the essentials of confidence-building between and among students and promote unconventional thinking (in the current parlance, thinking "outside the box") that can refine approaches to warfare before rather than in the midst of battle. From a historical standpoint, this study is unlike any done previously in terms of both scope and methodology. Experienced editors of naval publications indicate that no one has previously published a book which covers all five carrier battles of the Second World War. All five carrier battles have been mentioned in books, but only briefly attendant to campaigns taking place on land. In terms of methodology, dissection of the naval decision process in battle in relation to specific educational objectives previously instilled in the naval leadership, this study is believed to be applicationally unique. Thus this study has been conducted in appreciation of the possibility of making a unique scholarly contribution to the field of Military History, and also Military Education.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0344
Format: Thesis

Title: "Conservation of the Child Is Our First Duty": Clubwomen, Organized Labor, and the Politics of Child Labor Legislation in Florida.
Creator: Burns, Sarah, Green, Elna, Jones, Maxine, Koslow, Jennifer, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Florida's child welfare movement, a broad coalition of clubwomen, legislators, labor activists, and civic reformers, worked tirelessly to ensure that the right to a protected childhood was guaranteed to all of Florida's future citizens. These Progressive reformers, embracing new ideas about charity, the causes of poverty, and family life, turned to legislation to protect children when society could not, and their efforts culminated in the passage of Florida's comprehensive Child Labor Law in...
Show moreFlorida's child welfare movement, a broad coalition of clubwomen, legislators, labor activists, and civic reformers, worked tirelessly to ensure that the right to a protected childhood was guaranteed to all of Florida's future citizens. These Progressive reformers, embracing new ideas about charity, the causes of poverty, and family life, turned to legislation to protect children when society could not, and their efforts culminated in the passage of Florida's comprehensive Child Labor Law in 1913. Florida's child labor campaign was part of both a regional and a national movement to eradicate the practice of manipulating children in industry and the street trades. Despite its inclusion in this broader movement, Florida's anti-child labor coalition was unique. Unlike their Southern neighbors, Floridians shied away from the rhetoric of "race suicide." Speaking on behalf of child labor legislation, they emphasized the social and moral disadvantages of child labor rather than its repercussions for race relations. This grew out of Florida's distinct pattern of economic development: Florida was among the last Southern states to industrialize, and that industrial sector did not include the textile mills notorious for child labor abuses across the South. Florida's child laborers primarily consisted of African Americans and Southern and Eastern European immigrants working in canneries along the Gulf Coast and Cuban and Italian immigrants laboring in the cigar industry of South Florida. Both of these industries employed a much smaller number of child workers than manufacturers in Florida's neighboring states. Florida's child labor legislation thus served two distinct purposes: it was both a preventative measure designed to protect Florida's children from the kinds of exploitation taking place in neighboring states and a means of pressuring those states to pass similar legislation. This thesis, an examination of the politics of Florida's child labor movement, highlights the ways in which the national child labor platform could be adapted to succeed in different states, while it reaffirms the diversity of both Progressive reform and Progressive reformers in the early twentieth-century South.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0193
Format: Thesis

Title: Baptist Missions in the British Empire: Jamaica and Serampore in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.
Creator: Elliott, Kelly Rebecca, Upchurch, Charles J., Singh, Bawa S., McMahon, Darrin M., Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Baptist missions in the British Empire must be understood in the context of the Dissenting tradition in England, including Baptist history, theology, epistemology, radical politics, and class considerations. The Baptist missions at Serampore, in British Bengal, from 1794 to 1837, and in Jamaica from C. 1824 to 1850 provide ideal case studies through which to examine missionary identity formation, as well as the impact of missions on the Empire. British Baptist missionaries, already...
Show moreBaptist missions in the British Empire must be understood in the context of the Dissenting tradition in England, including Baptist history, theology, epistemology, radical politics, and class considerations. The Baptist missions at Serampore, in British Bengal, from 1794 to 1837, and in Jamaica from C. 1824 to 1850 provide ideal case studies through which to examine missionary identity formation, as well as the impact of missions on the Empire. British Baptist missionaries, already marginalized in England as Dissenters and artisan-class men, faced powerful challenges to their individual identities and loyalties in the mission field. In both India and Jamaica, white missionaries tended to identify more with non-white converts than with their fellow colonials. This shift led the Baptists studied here to ground their identities and loyalties in their mission and in their churches, rather than in the British Empire. Baptist missionaries thus viewed themselves primarily as Christians and Dissenters, not as English and white, and placed allegiance to their churches before English nationalism. The white missionaries who began the missions at Serampore and in Jamaica ultimately entrusted the future of their work to non-white converts. In both cases, the goal of evangelization was an independent church led by indigenous Christians.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0574
Format: Thesis

Title: The Importance of Cloth: Aegean Textile Representation in Neopalatial Wall Painting.
Creator: Donahue, Cristin J., Pullen, Daniel J., Pfaff, Christopher, Lee, Susan, Department of Art History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The large-scale frescoes from Neopalatial Crete and contemporary Thera reveal a salient emphasis on the portrayal of textiles. The theme of textiles is realized in the intricate portrayals of patterned clothing, the central depictions of tributary cloth, the iconographic theme involving the unworn flounced skirt, and portrayals of elaborate wall hangings. This investigation focuses on the corpus of wall paintings that specifically highlight the representation of cloth. The primary materials...
Show moreThe large-scale frescoes from Neopalatial Crete and contemporary Thera reveal a salient emphasis on the portrayal of textiles. The theme of textiles is realized in the intricate portrayals of patterned clothing, the central depictions of tributary cloth, the iconographic theme involving the unworn flounced skirt, and portrayals of elaborate wall hangings. This investigation focuses on the corpus of wall paintings that specifically highlight the representation of cloth. The primary materials evaluated are the large-scale figural frescoes that appear at the height of Minoan occupation at the sites of Knossos, Agia Triada, and Pseira on Crete, and at the contemporary sites of Akrotiri and Phylakopi in the Cycladic Islands. The material from Crete and that from the Cyclades is considered together, and the comparable textile iconography is identified and defined. The general objective of this study is to examine the significant role that textiles played during the Neopalatial period in the Aegean Bronze Age. The importance of cloth for this period, clearly documented by its artistic portrayal, has largely been overshadowed by investigations that are strictly concerned with Aegean costume or inquiries into textile industry. Investigations into the ritual and artistic use of cloth, irrespective of its role as clothing in the Aegean are rare. Moreover, sweeping investigations that consider the Minoan and Mycenaean paintings in a single homogeneous account often cloud the distinctiveness of the Minoan period. It is argued that the analogous representations from Crete and the Cycladic Islands reveal that textile production in the Neopalatial period was a major art of ritual, and artistic concern. Evidence that common social practices and religious rituals surrounding cloth existed in Crete and the Cyclades is furnished by comparable textile patterns, congruent styles of costume, and analogous ritual use represented in the large-scale fresco paintings. The conclusion is reached that while local affinities exist, there is specific commonality in the iconography of cloth between Crete and the Cyclades.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0717
Format: Thesis

Title: Case Studies in Aquarium History: Trends Discovered in Studying the History of Three Regional Aquariums..
Creator: Doar, Kevin H., Davis, Frederick R., Koslow, Jennifer, Wulff, Janie L., Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Three regional aquariums, Waikiki Aquarium, Clearwater Aquarium, and the Mote Marine Laboratory, provide the case-studies for this analysis into the history of aquariums. The history of these institutes provided historical trends into their educational, entertainment, research, and rehabilitation efforts. This in turn helped prove their influence upon the surrounding society.
Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0724
Format: Thesis

Title: Petty Despots and Executive Officials: Civil Military Relations in the Early American Navy.
Creator: Sheppard, Thomas, Hadden, Sally, Creswell, Michael, Jones, James, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: As a new nation, the United States lacked the long naval traditions of the other powers of the time, particularly Great Britain. When Congress created a naval force in 1794, the country had to rely on its first officers to form the traditions of the service and lay the foundations of the American Navy. These first officers bequeathed to their country the naval force that would eventually challenge the mighty Royal Navy in the War of 1812. However, officers alone were not responsible for the...
Show moreAs a new nation, the United States lacked the long naval traditions of the other powers of the time, particularly Great Britain. When Congress created a naval force in 1794, the country had to rely on its first officers to form the traditions of the service and lay the foundations of the American Navy. These first officers bequeathed to their country the naval force that would eventually challenge the mighty Royal Navy in the War of 1812. However, officers alone were not responsible for the maturation of the Navy. Civilian officials, notably the Secretary of the Navy, also played a major role in the development of an American maritime force. These two components did not always interact harmoniously. Captains, used to the total autonomy that command at sea in an era of starkly limited communication created, often had difficulty subordinating themselves to their civilian superiors. During the first three decades of the Navy's existence, successive Secretaries of the Navy would gradually increase their authority over their officers, establishing the traditions of civilian control over the military that had long been a part of land warfare. This thesis explores the process whereby the question of ultimate authority over the Navy was settled, beginning with the creation of the navy and culminating in the creation of the Board of Naval Commissioners following the War of 1812.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0312
Format: Thesis

Title: Far from fields of glory: military operations in Florida during the Civil War, 1864-1865.
Creator: Coles, David J.
Date Issued: 1996
Identifier: FS00000103_00001, 2821568, fsu:89548
Format: E-book

Title: Let He Who Objects Produce Sound Evidence: Lord Henry Howard and the Sixteenth Century Gynecocracy Debate.
Creator: Caney, Anna Christine, Strait, Paul, Grant, Jonathan, Singh, Bawa Satinder, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Glorious, creative, contentious and optimistic are all words that have been used to describe England in the second half of the Sixteenth-century. The Tudor age was one of great literature, military victory, religious tension, and, it was the age of queens. However, beneath the atmosphere of optimism that surrounded Mary I's, and then Elizabeth I's, ascension to the English throne lay a controversy that dug to the core of a man's beliefs about society, challenged the foundations of traditional...
Show moreGlorious, creative, contentious and optimistic are all words that have been used to describe England in the second half of the Sixteenth-century. The Tudor age was one of great literature, military victory, religious tension, and, it was the age of queens. However, beneath the atmosphere of optimism that surrounded Mary I's, and then Elizabeth I's, ascension to the English throne lay a controversy that dug to the core of a man's beliefs about society, challenged the foundations of traditional political thought, and forced men to decide what loyalty truly was. With Edward VI's death in 1553, for the first time since the twelfth-century, there were no male heirs to the English throne. Not only was the immediate heir to the throne of England female, but all of the possible legal contenders for the thrones of England and Scotland were female as well. Mary's succession fostered a debate among men as to whether a woman was not only legally allowed to rule England, but if she was spiritually and physically capable of doing so. Pamphlets and books discussing female rule were published throughout Mary's reign, and with Elizabeth's succession in 1558, the debate continued. This thesis seeks to discuss the Sixteenth century gynecocracy debate and Lord Henry Howard's unpublished defense of female rule, "The Dutifull Defence of the Lawfull Regiment of Weomen," which was presented to Queen Elizabeth in 1590. Howard's beliefs and interpretation of Scripture, Philosophy and Law differ in many respects from contemporary authors who were writing both against, and in favor of women in general and female monarchy. Howard's theories presented in "Dutifull Defence" will be compared to other contemporary works written on the subject, especially John Knox's First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. After discussing Howard's life and motives for writing "Dutifull Defense," an analysis of his manuscript will be made by looking at the physical manuscripts themselves, comparing Howard's use of theology, philosophy and law to other contemporary writers, and revealing what Howard believed about women in an age when they were still seen as physically inferior, and mentally incapable, of administering any form of government. In order to achieve a thorough view of Howard, I have consulted his personal letters, letters from Howard's contemporaries, documents concerning Howard in the State Papers, and secondary sources discussing Howard, his life, and his written work. Additionally, works on early modern political thought, ancient and medieval philosophy and law, women and gender in the early modern period, and early modern English history have been consulted to provide contextual and content analysis. Combined, they will provide a view of a man who was remarkable in his time, and a work that was groundbreaking in his world.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0097
Format: Thesis

Title: Competition for Freedom: Black Labor during Reconstruction in Florida.
Creator: Day, Christopher S., Richardson, Joe M., Jones, Maxine D., Garretson, Peter, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: In American History Reconstruction was a period of great change. The abolition of slavery forced the South to create a free labor system. How did this new focus affect African-Americans? Were they to become equal participants in a free labor society or once again a subordinate labor class? Historians have argued about the ambiguities of racial oppression. Many concluded that the main fear was social equality; whites refused to accept blacks as anything other than second class. This was not...
Show moreIn American History Reconstruction was a period of great change. The abolition of slavery forced the South to create a free labor system. How did this new focus affect African-Americans? Were they to become equal participants in a free labor society or once again a subordinate labor class? Historians have argued about the ambiguities of racial oppression. Many concluded that the main fear was social equality; whites refused to accept blacks as anything other than second class. This was not entirely incorrect, but what else was at stake? If blacks were denied opportunities to advance in society what was left for them? By being denied certain avenues African-Americans were forced into a position of subservient labor for white employers. During the years of Presidential Reconstruction, 1865 – 1867, black suffrage was vigorously opposed by a majority of Southern whites. Even with the passage of the fifteenth amendment whites used intimidation to curb black voting. Lack of capital and fear of retribution also made it difficult to buy land and become economically independent. These issues along with social segregation created a second class black community that had few alternatives, but to work for whites as they had done in the past. This indeed is not the complete answer to the race relations question, but it does show that denial of rights, whether by law or violence, and lack of economic independence can create an environment that will promote a subordinate labor class.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0063
Format: Thesis

Title: Life inside the Earth: The Koreshan Unity and Its Urban Pioneers, 1880-1908.
Creator: Adams, Katherine J., Koslow, Jennifer, Frank, Andrew, Oshatz, Molly, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis presents a social and cultural history of the Koreshan Unity from its official beginnings in the 1880s to its decline in 1908. Founded by eclectic medical doctor Cyrus R. Teed, the Koreshan Unity emerged as yet another utopian experiment during the late-nineteenth century. While many utopian communities have been established in the United States since the colonial period, the Koreshans were a community unique in ideology and social practices. Founded on ancient Christian beliefs,...
Show moreThis thesis presents a social and cultural history of the Koreshan Unity from its official beginnings in the 1880s to its decline in 1908. Founded by eclectic medical doctor Cyrus R. Teed, the Koreshan Unity emerged as yet another utopian experiment during the late-nineteenth century. While many utopian communities have been established in the United States since the colonial period, the Koreshans were a community unique in ideology and social practices. Founded on ancient Christian beliefs, science, and communal standards, the Koreshan Unity has become known throughout the American utopian historical narrative as the utopian community that believed humanity lived inside the earth. While Koreshan beliefs are important in recording the community's history, a more personal history has often been left out of the scholarship on this topic. This thesis seeks to investigate the human side of the Koreshan Unity by tracing the life of Cyrus Teed and providing a glimpse into the everyday lives of the Koreshan members in their settlement in Estero, Florida. Utilizing the Koreshan Unity papers located at the State Archives of Florida, this material culture represents how the Koreshan members tried to realize Teed's and their utopian dream. While the Koreshan Unity began its decline after Teed's death in 1908, its members still portrayed their utopian experiment as a success because they found a haven in the religious and communal opportunities the community supported. Currently, this view of the Koreshan Unity is being preserved at the Koreshan State Historic Site (KSHS), located on the once Koreshan settlement grounds. While scholars who have contributed to the American utopian historical narrative have defined "success" based on numbers and general cultural trends, this thesis proves that only the participants in the movement can truly define what success really means.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0116
Format: Thesis

Title: The Romanian Media in Transition.
Creator: Georgiadis, Basil D., Grant, Jonathon, O'Sullivan, Patrick, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Creswell, Michael, Childs, Matt, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The Romanian media has progressed in only a decade and a half since the fall of Communism. Reporters discuss themes about political reform, the elections, corruption, and even political protest. They critically analyze stories asking the basic questions while frequently providing follow-up. The press has liberalized, reflecting pluralistic domestic and international information sources as opposed to the State-controlled media before 1990. The media, along with free elections, transparency of...
Show moreThe Romanian media has progressed in only a decade and a half since the fall of Communism. Reporters discuss themes about political reform, the elections, corruption, and even political protest. They critically analyze stories asking the basic questions while frequently providing follow-up. The press has liberalized, reflecting pluralistic domestic and international information sources as opposed to the State-controlled media before 1990. The media, along with free elections, transparency of law and government, and a civil society, are important benchmarks for a society that strives to compare favorably with the West, and for that reason deserves examination. Serious problems exist however. A weak economy makes the media susceptible to government manipulation. Legal challenges by the government and businessmen against journalists as defendants, impose hefty fines over libel and slander challenges. Control of state broadcast media by ex-Communist ruling Social Democrats prevents the mass media from contributing to the public dialogue. Social attitudes developed in the twentieth century, negatively shape the reporting of national minority groups which are substantial in Romania and the Balkans. Finally, an authoritarian tradition based on imperial, fascist, and communist rule, has manifested itself in violence towards journalists. The dissertation examines the media within the Communist tradition from 1945-1989 and followed with a survey of the post-Communist media. A brief history of the national minorities question provides perspective on present day attitudes in the media towards these groups. A survey of NGO's and other institutions examined progress towards a civil society. In the international context, a comparison of the situation in Romania with countries in Eastern Europe and Latin America revealed similar problems. The media has diversified greatly considering the short time frame of this study in post-Communist Romania. Election choices, international structures and non-governmental agencies will continue to influence and change the political and media culture while a weak economy and authoritarian mentality in the government and legal system offer challenges to a developing free press and young democracy in Romania.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0139
Format: Thesis

Title: Sojourn to the Sun God: Places of Emergence and Movement in Mixtec Codices.
Creator: Schaeffer, D. Douglas Bryan, Carrasco, Michael, Frank, Andrew, Niell, Paul B., Leitch, Stephanie, Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art History
Abstract/Description: Mixtec codices are sacred books folded like accordions and composed of strips of deer hide or fig-tree bark that visually narrate activities of deities, supernatural culture heroes, and the actions and genealogies of historical Mixtec kings and queens who wanted to emulate them. Recorded in a pictographic writing system, Mixtec codices are cultural artifacts that offer the viewer glimpses of the complex and layered representations of a specific people from particular places during the...
Show moreMixtec codices are sacred books folded like accordions and composed of strips of deer hide or fig-tree bark that visually narrate activities of deities, supernatural culture heroes, and the actions and genealogies of historical Mixtec kings and queens who wanted to emulate them. Recorded in a pictographic writing system, Mixtec codices are cultural artifacts that offer the viewer glimpses of the complex and layered representations of a specific people from particular places during the Postclassic epoch of Mesoamerica. A salient part of these visualized narratives is the act of travel. In Mixtec codices, travel typically begins with the physical act of emergence of a substance, being, or historical figure. Emergence is a visual point of departure for various narratives that pulsate with ongoing movement that we are here defining as travel itself, as the itinerant traversing of place, as the formation of visual trails in the landscape and in the narrative display and reading of the pages in Mixtec codices. Travel is repeated as a conceptual, visual, and performative trope throughout Mesoamerica in various media produced by distinct ethnic groups and communities with various levels of power in the wider webs of Mesoamerican praxis. Travel in the Mixtec codices connects to the incipient founding of community, to the contemporary people, place, and cultural rhythms of communal, ritual life. Through the visual narratives recorded in the codices, an understanding of Mixtec identity, memory, and therefore history is linked to specific places through specific actions such as emergence from and travel to points of origin. By examining such visually codified narratives, this dissertation posits that Mixtec ethnogeographies of travel form part of recording a community’s identity and its connection to place.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_FALL2017_Schaeffer_fsu_0071E_14163
Format: Thesis

Title: Fossil Excavation, Museums, and Wyoming: American Paleontology, 1870-1915.
Creator: Cameron, Marlena Briane, Doel, Ronald Edmund, Ruse, Michael, Buhrman, Kristina Mairi, Varry, Sandra, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in History...
Show moreCameron, Marlena Briane, Doel, Ronald Edmund, Ruse, Michael, Buhrman, Kristina Mairi, Varry, Sandra, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in History and Philosophy of Science
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Abstract/Description: Displays of dinosaurs have become a staple of modern natural history museums, but these did not emerge until the turn of the twentieth century. Through the work of Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh in this field (despite their intense rivalry), paleontology grew as a discipline and, after losing federal funding, found a new home in museums and universities. Recognizing the potential of large dinosaurs for display and education, major natural history museums such as the American...
Show moreDisplays of dinosaurs have become a staple of modern natural history museums, but these did not emerge until the turn of the twentieth century. Through the work of Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh in this field (despite their intense rivalry), paleontology grew as a discipline and, after losing federal funding, found a new home in museums and universities. Recognizing the potential of large dinosaurs for display and education, major natural history museums such as the American Museum of Natural History in New York under Henry Osborn began competing for their own specimens. Much work has been done on the efforts of these emerging large museums. Smaller museums such as the University of Wyoming Museum, however, have been much less studied. Through its proximity to immense, rich fossil fields, the university became directly connected to the major events shaping paleontology at the time. Yet differences in the pedagogy and intentions behind its formation—a sense of state pride rather than the concerns of wealthy, elite sponsors—served to set it apart from larger, more well-known institutions.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_FALL2017_Cameron_fsu_0071N_14117
Format: Thesis

Title: Nationalism, Modernization and the "Woman Question" in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic from the Perspective of the "Ideal/New Turkish Women".
Creator: Sonmez Poyraz, Sebahat, Garretson, Peter P., Johnson, David F. (David Frame), Hanley, Will, Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, François, Florida State University, College of Arts and...
Show moreSonmez Poyraz, Sebahat, Garretson, Peter P., Johnson, David F. (David Frame), Hanley, Will, Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, François, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities
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Abstract/Description: The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the complex and multidimensional relationship of women to the idea of nations and nationalism. In particular, it seeks answers to the following questions: What did nationalism mean to women? How did they imagine the nation? How did they respond to the gendered nationalist discourses? How did they exercise their agency as social actors in the nation building project? With an inquiry of such questions, this study challenges the perception of the ...
Show moreThe purpose of this dissertation is to explore the complex and multidimensional relationship of women to the idea of nations and nationalism. In particular, it seeks answers to the following questions: What did nationalism mean to women? How did they imagine the nation? How did they respond to the gendered nationalist discourses? How did they exercise their agency as social actors in the nation building project? With an inquiry of such questions, this study challenges the perception of the “woman question” as “a struggle in which male protagonists engaged each other while women remained surprisingly passive onlookers.” This study rather explores the dialectical relationship between woman-as-objects, who have been discussed and portrayed as a static, homogenous form within nationalist discourses, and woman-as-subjects who actively participated in constructing and/or contesting nationalist discourses while tracing the continuities and discontinues in nationalist discourse. In other words, this study lets female intellectuals speak in their own terms and in their historical contexts. In order to do so, this study concentrates on two pioneer female intellectuals who were actively involved in constructing national identity in the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic: Halide Edib [Adıvar] (1884-1964), a novelist, an activist, and an ardent nationalist who also took part in the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1923), and Ayşe Afet [İnan] (1908-1985), one of the adopted daughters of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the first female historian of the Turkish Republic, and the ideologue of Kemalist master narrative.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_FALL2017_SonmezPoyraz_fsu_0071E_13846
Format: Thesis

Title: From Rubrication to Typography: Die geesten of geschiedenis van Romen and the History of the Book in the Low Countries.
Creator: Gibbons, Jacob, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The development of printing in the fifteenth century did not transform the medieval Book from the manuscript to the modern mass-market paperback overnight—instead, changes in the design of late medieval texts occurred gradually over the first decades of printing in Europe. This has significant repercussions for the way we should evaluate terms like "print culture" and how we understand features of book production traditionally assigned to manuscript or print. To illuminate this transition, I...
Show moreThe development of printing in the fifteenth century did not transform the medieval Book from the manuscript to the modern mass-market paperback overnight—instead, changes in the design of late medieval texts occurred gradually over the first decades of printing in Europe. This has significant repercussions for the way we should evaluate terms like "print culture" and how we understand features of book production traditionally assigned to manuscript or print. To illuminate this transition, I will discuss the changes in the structuring and layout of books at the end of the fifteenth century, with a particular focus on "rubrication," the strategic use of red ink to guide readers' eyes through the pages of the medieval manuscript. Despite the development of printing and its affordances for using font, size, and spatial arrangement of the text to orient the reader, rubrication continued to be used in complex and multivalent ways throughout early printing. A detailed case study of several early print and manuscript editions of the Gesta Romanorum—one of the most popular storybooks of the Late Middle Ages—reveals a gradual transition from the use of rubrication and other visual cues in the medieval manuscript to the spatially-typographically oriented printed book. This transition was characterized by continuity and measured evolution—rather than an abrupt shift to something as concrete as "print culture"—in which the new technology emulated its predecessor as it progressively developed its own identity and made its own imprint on literate society.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0207
Format: Thesis

Title: Nietzsche's Transgression: Philosopher as Criminal.
Creator: Hettig-Rolfe, Kasey, Department of Philosophy
Abstract/Description: This thesis investigates the figure of the criminal within Nietzsche's thought in order to generate a more profound understanding of Nietzsche's relationship with the philosophies that he critiques. In particular, there is a concern that Nietzsche cannot himself escape the crime which he accuses his philosophical predecessors of committing. This investigation was motivated by a suspicion of interpretations which attempt to stabilize Nietzsche's thought into pronouncing a clear moral...
Show moreThis thesis investigates the figure of the criminal within Nietzsche's thought in order to generate a more profound understanding of Nietzsche's relationship with the philosophies that he critiques. In particular, there is a concern that Nietzsche cannot himself escape the crime which he accuses his philosophical predecessors of committing. This investigation was motivated by a suspicion of interpretations which attempt to stabilize Nietzsche's thought into pronouncing a clear moral imperative or which attempt to situate him in a strict and violent opposition with the entire history of philosophy. By conducting an investigation on Nietzsche's portrait of the philosopher as the "criminal of criminals," I generate an account of how Nietzsche's critical philosophy simultaneously does and does not commit the crime which he has levied against his opponents. This paradoxical crime which reverberates through Nietzsche's body of work reveals what I have termed a "daemonic" conception of truth and value being communicated between the lines of Nietzsche's texts.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0189
Format: Thesis

Title: E42: Architecture and the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy.
Creator: Ciampittiello, Masha, Art History
Abstract/Description: During the reign of Benito Mussolini (1925–1943), Italian architects reevaluated the purpose and direction that modernism had taken in Italy, reorienting its previous focus on progressive, functional architecture for the masses to include political propaganda for the state. From the Novecento, Rationalist, and Futurist movements, the Regime chose designs that referred back to the stark monumentality of Imperial Rome. This thesis argues that despite such constraints, Italian architects managed...
Show moreDuring the reign of Benito Mussolini (1925–1943), Italian architects reevaluated the purpose and direction that modernism had taken in Italy, reorienting its previous focus on progressive, functional architecture for the masses to include political propaganda for the state. From the Novecento, Rationalist, and Futurist movements, the Regime chose designs that referred back to the stark monumentality of Imperial Rome. This thesis argues that despite such constraints, Italian architects managed to find innovative solutions and novel forms for representing Italian fascist rhetoric, producing a great deal of individual variation within the architectural schools with which they were associated. Support for Mussolini's empire rested on popular mythologizing about the former Roman Empire and the belief among Italians that the nation and its people were destined to revisit its glory. The propagandistic forms designed by Italian architects employed by the state, as I argue, reflect this understanding as to the role of classical heritage in the present and the place of individual innovation. The principal evidence for my claim is the architecture and urban planning associated with the aborted Esposizione universale of 1942 (colloquially known as E42). The state used this suburban network of exhibition halls to display the supremacy of contemporary Italian culture by making reference to classical Roman antiquity and to a lesser extent the monumental forms of the Renaissance. My study investigates the ways in which the architects of E42, in seeking to integrate the masses on a personal level with the political ideology of the state, referenced Roman antiquity and the Renaissance, thereby visualizing connections between Mussolini's empire and the successful authoritative governments of Italy's past. I provide a detailed assessment of E42 and the various architectural schools competing for state sponsorship in order to demonstrate that the production of Italian fascist visual culture was contingent to a greater degree than has previously been acknowledged upon the notion that the state fostered some measure of individualism in artistic design.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0095
Format: Thesis

Title: Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire: external hindrances to economic development from colonization to structural adjustment.
Creator: Selman, Caleb
Date Issued: 2005-12-23
Identifier: 160415, FSDT160415, fsu:18900
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: “Laborers Together with God”: Civilian Public Service and Public Health in the South during World War II.
Creator: Tomlinson, Angela E., Jones, Maxine Deloris, Montgomery, Maxine L., Jones, James Pickett, Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show moreTomlinson, Angela E., Jones, Maxine Deloris, Montgomery, Maxine L., Jones, James Pickett, Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: During World War II, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 required conscientious objectors (COs) who opposed any form of military service to perform "work of national importance under civilian direction." The program that carried out this alternative service was the Civilian Public Service (CPS), in which approximately 12,000 pacifists served at 151 camps established across the nation during the war. Some of those camps were in Florida and Mississippi, where CPS men worked with...
Show moreDuring World War II, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 required conscientious objectors (COs) who opposed any form of military service to perform "work of national importance under civilian direction." The program that carried out this alternative service was the Civilian Public Service (CPS), in which approximately 12,000 pacifists served at 151 camps established across the nation during the war. Some of those camps were in Florida and Mississippi, where CPS men worked with state and local public health authorities to combat diseases that plagued the South's poor, including hookworm and malaria. Though an advance over previous options for COs, CPS was not always well-received, by either the American people or the men who served within it. This dissertation will examine the camps in Florida and Mississippi to assess the success (or lack thereof) of the CPS alternative service program during the war, and also to explore the larger question of how well the United States upholds and protects the right of its citizens (particularly, nonconformist citizens) during a time of national crisis.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_2015fall_Tomlinson_fsu_0071E_12875
Format: Thesis

Title: Emancipating the American Spirit: Renaissance and Reconstruction in New England, 1845-1877.
Creator: Shubitz, Scott M., Jumonville, Neil, Frank, Andrew, Porterfield, Amanda, Gray, Edward G., Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show moreShubitz, Scott M., Jumonville, Neil, Frank, Andrew, Porterfield, Amanda, Gray, Edward G., Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: The abolition of slavery during the American Civil War did not end the antislavery ambitions of many liberal Christian reformers. As four million African American slaves transitioned from bondage to freedom, Unitarian and other Christian reformers knew that their work was far from complete. Initially motivated by a desire to establish a new spiritual world on Earth, the reformers in this study immediately realized that freeing African slaves hardly eliminated sin and injustice from the United...
Show moreThe abolition of slavery during the American Civil War did not end the antislavery ambitions of many liberal Christian reformers. As four million African American slaves transitioned from bondage to freedom, Unitarian and other Christian reformers knew that their work was far from complete. Initially motivated by a desire to establish a new spiritual world on Earth, the reformers in this study immediately realized that freeing African slaves hardly eliminated sin and injustice from the United States. As a result, they parlayed their energies into a new movement to emancipate the soul of the nation. In this continuation of the anti-slavery movement, spiritual abolitionists turned their attention to breaking down sectarianism, fighting orthodoxy, and legitimizing religious heterodoxy in the post-Civil War America. If they could eliminate doctrinal and organizational divisions between the various Christian sects, these reformers believed that they could usher in an era of free thought and religious tolerance; and if they could rid the nation of "spiritual slavery" and establish a "free religion," they would witness unprecedented freedom and prosperity in the newly reunited nation. This study shows that the reciprocal influence of abolitionism and liberal religion on each other culminated in a vibrant spiritual abolitionist movement aimed at reforming American spiritual life and promoting tolerance, legitimizing heterodox beliefs, and undermining the Protestant consensus that characterized American spiritual life during the antebellum period. Throughout the mid-to-late 1860s the individuals in this study who had cut their teeth as social reformers in the abolitionist movement or had at least been influenced by antislavery thought, used the rhetoric and approach of the antislavery movement to further the goals of liberal religion. These emerging spiritual abolitionists engaged in an effort to abolish what they termed "spiritual slavery"—a concept that has never had a full-length study devoted to it. Spiritual abolitionists conceived of spiritual slavery as a type of bondage, manifested through religious dogma, orthodoxy, and doctrine, that restricted human freedom. Spiritual abolitionists eschewed the orthodoxy and literalism that proslavery advocates had embraced during the antebellum to legitimate the institution of slavery. Spiritual slavery, like physical slavery, was simply a manifestation of hierarchy and authority that limited human free will and free thought. Spiritual slavery itself had real and concrete negative social repercussions, as it manifested in society in the form of ignorance, cruelty, and the suppression of heterodox beliefs. Spiritual abolitionists believed that without emancipating the human spirit and intellect from spiritual slavery, humanity would continue to be shackled by the chains of slavery. The Civil War and the abolition of chattel slavery were pivotal in the emergence of spiritual abolitionism. For spiritual abolitionists, the end of the Civil War represented a millennial moment which signaled the coming destruction of all forms of slavery. The end of the war and the defeat of the Confederacy closed a period of human history epitomized by slavery and brutality, and heralded a new epoch characterized by freedom and humaneness. In this view, the period following the war would be one of not just economic and political reconstruction, but of spiritual and intellectual reconstruction. The nation, reunited after the division of political sectionalism, would be further united with a triumph over religious sectarianism and denominationalism and of religious bigotry and intolerance. In 1865, spiritual abolitionists quickly went to work to achieve the end their new emancipationism. Using the language of abolitionism to further the cause of liberal religion, spiritual abolitionists devoted their energies to building institutions and establishing the framework for reforming American spiritual life. The largest organization dedicated to spiritual abolitionism was the Free Religious Association. The Free Religious Association, envisioned as a spiritual antislavery society, was founded in 1867 by Unitarians, Transcendentalists, and other liberal religionists who had been influenced by abolitionism. But the Free Religious Association was just one way of promoting spiritual and intellectual reform in Reconstruction era America. By connecting spiritual reformers throughout the nation, disseminating knowledge, and establishing a number of periodicals, reformers in this study helped spread spiritual abolitionism and promote religious pluralism and tolerance in postwar America.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_2015fall_Shubitz_fsu_0071E_12876
Format: Thesis

Title: To and Through the Doors of Ocha: Music, Spiritual Transformation, and Reversion Among African American Lucumí.
Creator: Beckley-Roberts, Lisa Michelle, Gunderson, Frank D., Jones, Maxine Deloris, Bakan, Michael B., Von Glahn, Denise, Florida State University, College of Music
Abstract/Description: This dissertation asserts that members of Ile Asho Funfun, the Lucumí spiritual house at the center of the research, is comprised of members who have undergone the process of converting to the spiritual practice of Lucumí and, as such, have experienced tremendous personal transformation. The author argues that the religious practice of Lucumí was introduced to African Americans through music and dance traditions in the 1940s by performing artists and that since that time music has been one of...
Show moreThis dissertation asserts that members of Ile Asho Funfun, the Lucumí spiritual house at the center of the research, is comprised of members who have undergone the process of converting to the spiritual practice of Lucumí and, as such, have experienced tremendous personal transformation. The author argues that the religious practice of Lucumí was introduced to African Americans through music and dance traditions in the 1940s by performing artists and that since that time music has been one of the foremost tools of conversion. Among the theories asserted herein, the author develops the theory of reversion to describe the process of conversion from Christianity to Lucumí. Borrowed from Islamic traditions that use the term to refer to a return to the natural state of awareness of the one true God, reversion here is viewed as a return to the religion of practitioners' ancestors and to a set of practices that are innately a part of human understanding of the cosmos and Creator as well their place within the cosmos and with the Creator. Furthermore, the author contends that process of reversion is ongoing, informed by Afrocentricity, and impacted by the constant expansion and contraction of the religion. These occur as individuals and the community adjust to life events while negotiating their identity as both African and American. This dissertation establishes the theories of expansion and contraction as the processes by which African practitioners of Yoruba-derived religions have always adapted their practices to the situation and environment. The author introduces these concepts as a more precise description of processes of adaptation than the more commonly cited concept of syncretism. The author both observed and practiced the religion for ten years prior to undertaking the research and did field work and ethnographic research for six years while studying for and writing this dissertation using a reflexive approach.
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Date Issued: 2016
Identifier: FSU_2016SP_BeckleyRoberts_fsu_0071E_13164
Format: Thesis

Title: The profession of accountancy: Its historical background and present status in the United States.
Creator: Sundarodaya, Suchitr, Richey, Luella, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "It is the object of this paper to sketch relatively briefly the evolution of accounting from obscure early beginnings to the position of importance and prestige which it holds today. This paper will also investigate the status of the profession today; the form of organized cooperation; the varying yet similar state laws; the high educational requirements; the type of state examinations; the high code of ethics; and the publications showing the subjects of current interest and sometimes of...
Show more"It is the object of this paper to sketch relatively briefly the evolution of accounting from obscure early beginnings to the position of importance and prestige which it holds today. This paper will also investigate the status of the profession today; the form of organized cooperation; the varying yet similar state laws; the high educational requirements; the type of state examinations; the high code of ethics; and the publications showing the subjects of current interest and sometimes of controversies at present"--Foreword.
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Date Issued: 1956
Identifier: FSU_akp4895
Format: Thesis

Title: Music in the Paintbox: Art and Music in the Düsseldorf Malkasten Society.
Creator: Casamassina, Toni L., Seaton, Douglass, Hoekman, Timothy, Brewer, Charles E. (Charles Everett), Von Glahn, Denise, Florida State University, College of Music, College of Music
Abstract/Description: Within the archives of the Künstlerverein Malkasten (Paintbox Artists' Union) in Düsseldorf, Germany, is a vast corpus of visual art, posters, programs, and books that illuminate the musical life of this artists' club. The materials reveal that the club not only enjoyed music as entertainment but also depended on it for inspiration in their artwork and as a means of social interaction, not only between members but also between members and the greater Rhineland community, as well. The picture...
Show moreWithin the archives of the Künstlerverein Malkasten (Paintbox Artists' Union) in Düsseldorf, Germany, is a vast corpus of visual art, posters, programs, and books that illuminate the musical life of this artists' club. The materials reveal that the club not only enjoyed music as entertainment but also depended on it for inspiration in their artwork and as a means of social interaction, not only between members but also between members and the greater Rhineland community, as well. The picture of the society that emerges from these sources is intrinsically connected to music and music-making, informing an understanding of how this highly-regarded institution and brotherhood of artists communed and thrived for over one hundred years. Even prior to the Malkasten's foundation in 1848, the artists that eventually made up its membership from the Düsseldorfer Malerschule and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf had used musical iconography prominently in their works. Musical imagery appears pervasively throughout the Malkasten's artistic catalogue, regardless of subject or style. Its nearly ubiquitous presence showcases musical instruments and performers in a variety of contexts, from symbolic allegories to satirical cartoons. These works reflect that music was part of the artists' overall consciousness and demonstrate the ideological first step into creating interdisciplinary artwork, for which the club became well known. The lied was the primary genre used by the Malkasten, and many of its artists participated in either writing song texts, often specifically for club performance, or creating imagery to accompany those texts. A typology of song books in nineteenth-century Düsseldorf allows for an examination of the sources used by the Malkasten, offering a glimpse into what types of lieder the artists sang together. This visual/musical literature reached its peak in the most sophisticated lied source used by the club – the Düsseldorfer Lieder-Album (1851) – which featured newly-composed songs with accompanying full-page color lithographs designed by Malkasten artists. Musical performances were a principal activity of the Malkasten throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including various types of Liederabends, concerts, tableaux vivants, musico-theatrical productions, and pageants. The club hosted these performances and members actively participated in them. While many artists worked to create posters and programs for the events, others wrote librettos or dialogue. Many of the members also performed in the presentations, often as singers in solo or ensemble roles. The imagery, songs, and performances of the Malkasten provide a detailed portrait of the Malkasten and its culture. The artists' love of music, history, poetry, nature, and the Rhineland all intertwine within these sources; the artwork and the texts reflect their witty sense of humor, ardent patriotism, and sincere fondness for one another. In short, the character and activity of the Malkasten as an organization are represented fully in its musical life.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_2015fall_Casamassina_fsu_0071E_12925
Format: Thesis

Title: Some antecedents of The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
Creator: Lang, Lucy, Pyburn, Nita Katharine, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "There are four international organizations whose contributions may be utilized to advantage by the UNESCO. They are (1) The Institute of International Education, (2) The World Federation of Education Associations, (3) the International Bureau of Education, and (4) The New Education Fellowship. It is the purpose of this paper to present something of the work of these organizations for the period of time between World War I and World War II as a basis for understanding what the UNESCO has to...
Show more"There are four international organizations whose contributions may be utilized to advantage by the UNESCO. They are (1) The Institute of International Education, (2) The World Federation of Education Associations, (3) the International Bureau of Education, and (4) The New Education Fellowship. It is the purpose of this paper to present something of the work of these organizations for the period of time between World War I and World War II as a basis for understanding what the UNESCO has to build on"--Introduction.
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Date Issued: 1947
Identifier: FSU_Lang_Lucy
Format: Thesis

Title: A study of the historical development of Douglas Gardens, the Jewish Home for the Aged of Greater Miami, Florida.
Creator: Carter, J. Pomeroy, Morris, Irene E., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "The purpose of this study is to present descriptively the available information pertaining to the historical development of a voluntary non-profit home--Douglas Gardens, Jewish Home for the Aged of Greater Miami, Florida. The founders of the Home formed themselves into an organized group in 1939 and became incorporated as a non-profit organization on July 25, 1940. However, the Home was not opened for service until 1945. It was believed that information about the Home which was accumulated...
Show more"The purpose of this study is to present descriptively the available information pertaining to the historical development of a voluntary non-profit home--Douglas Gardens, Jewish Home for the Aged of Greater Miami, Florida. The founders of the Home formed themselves into an organized group in 1939 and became incorporated as a non-profit organization on July 25, 1940. However, the Home was not opened for service until 1945. It was believed that information about the Home which was accumulated over the last twenty years would exhibit an historical and chronological experience of this sectarian group which would have wide application to similar efforts elsewhere"--Introduction.
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Date Issued: 1960
Identifier: FSU_ahn3734
Format: Thesis

Title: Theophilanthropy: Civil Religion and Secularization in the French Revolution.
Creator: Deverse, Jonathan Douglas, McMahon, Darrin M., Blaufarb, Rafe, Kavka, Martin, Williamson, George S., Grant, Jonathan A., Doel, Ronald Edmund, Florida State University, College...
Show moreDeverse, Jonathan Douglas, McMahon, Darrin M., Blaufarb, Rafe, Kavka, Martin, Williamson, George S., Grant, Jonathan A., Doel, Ronald Edmund, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: This dissertation examines how the implementation of Enlightenment ideas in the French Revolution gave birth to a new secular conception of the state and the invention of a new religion. I argue that Jean-Jacques Rousseau, representing shared assumptions across the Enlightenment, interpreted religion to be a human construct and thus subject to human intervention. With the onset of 1789 revolutionaries employed this conception to reorganize the Gallican Church and institute the radical Cults...
Show moreThis dissertation examines how the implementation of Enlightenment ideas in the French Revolution gave birth to a new secular conception of the state and the invention of a new religion. I argue that Jean-Jacques Rousseau, representing shared assumptions across the Enlightenment, interpreted religion to be a human construct and thus subject to human intervention. With the onset of 1789 revolutionaries employed this conception to reorganize the Gallican Church and institute the radical Cults of Reason and the Supreme Being. When these endeavors failed revolutionaries refocused on two solutions: the secular laws of 1795 and Theophilanthropy. Revolutionary secularization separated Church and state and confined worship to the private sphere. Consequently Theophilanthropy acquired an independent status and the Revolution acted as a catalyst for the invention of a new religion based on Enlightenment principles. This study explores how Theophilanthropy stood at the foundation of French secularization, modern civil religion and subsequent New Religious Movements (NRM). The historical significance of Theophilanthropy was critical in its own time and bequeathed a legacy that long outlasted the Revolution.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_2015fall_Deverse_fsu_0071E_12862
Format: Thesis

Title: Per Sanctum Vultum De Luca! Il Volto Santo and Its Relic Cult during the Late Eleventh Through Thirteenth Centuries.
Creator: Fee, Carey E. (Carey Elizabeth), Gerson, Paula Lieber, Zanini-Cordi, Irene, Jones, Lynn, Leitch, Stephanie, Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art...
Show moreFee, Carey E. (Carey Elizabeth), Gerson, Paula Lieber, Zanini-Cordi, Irene, Jones, Lynn, Leitch, Stephanie, Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art History
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Abstract/Description: Contemporary pilgrimage activities associated with the Volto Santo may be traced to the origins of the cult, which, as I argue in this dissertation, was established in the late eleventh century. I propose this new date of the cult's establishment, as well as its development and promotion in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, based on research in the areas of Lucca's political, religious, and economic histories, as well as other Lucchese relic cults, the hagiographic and iconographic...
Show moreContemporary pilgrimage activities associated with the Volto Santo may be traced to the origins of the cult, which, as I argue in this dissertation, was established in the late eleventh century. I propose this new date of the cult's establishment, as well as its development and promotion in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, based on research in the areas of Lucca's political, religious, and economic histories, as well as other Lucchese relic cults, the hagiographic and iconographic traditions associated with the Volto Santo, other competing relic cults in Tuscany, and the impact of Lucca's textile industry. This dissertation provides the first substantial contribution to the art historical contextualization of Il Volto Santo during the latter Middle Ages by investigating the intricate relationships between the religious, political, and economic affairs involving the Volto Santo during the late eleventh through thirteenth centuries. In addition, it complements the growing scholarship dedicated to pilgrimage studies associated with the Via Francigena.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_2015fall_Fee_fsu_0071E_12870
Format: Thesis

Title: Kung-Fu Cowboys to Bronx B-Boys: Heroes and the Birth of Hip Hop Culture.
Creator: Edwards, Cutler, Jumonville, Neil, Jones, Maxine, Childs, Matt D., Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The scholarly study of hip hop is still in its infancy, and the focus in 2005 still rests largely upon African roots. However, many influences helped to shape hip hop culture in New York during its formative period in the 1970s. One of the most important of these was the Chinese kung-fu film, and the kung-fu heroes upon whom this cinema centered. Rather than being seen as a foreign concept, the kung-fu hero fit into American culture as an ideological descendant of the mythological American...
Show moreThe scholarly study of hip hop is still in its infancy, and the focus in 2005 still rests largely upon African roots. However, many influences helped to shape hip hop culture in New York during its formative period in the 1970s. One of the most important of these was the Chinese kung-fu film, and the kung-fu heroes upon whom this cinema centered. Rather than being seen as a foreign concept, the kung-fu hero fit into American culture as an ideological descendant of the mythological American cowboy. By tracing the history of the cowboy as American hero and then investigating the similarities between cowboy hero and kung-fu hero, the reasons for the kung-fu hero's acceptance in America, particularly by minority audiences, become clear. Finally, an analysis of the movement in kung-fu films and hip hop dance (called breaking or b-boying), reveals how the kung-fu hero affected the development of hip hop culture, and its aesthetic and philosophical underpinnings.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0609
Format: Set of related objects

Title: Cut from Different Cloth: The USS Constitution and the American Frigate Fleet.
Creator: Byington, Richard Brownlow, Blaufarb, Rafe, Ward, Candace, Grant, Jonathan A., Jones, Maxine Deloris, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show moreByington, Richard Brownlow, Blaufarb, Rafe, Ward, Candace, Grant, Jonathan A., Jones, Maxine Deloris, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: The historiography of the early American navy and, more definitively, the USS Constitution's role in American consciousness revolve around the valorous acts associated with the naval engagement between the Constitution and the HMS Guerriere during the War of 1812. The basis for this mass public appeal was presented, disseminated, and perpetuated by historians, journalists, and popular writers. Paralleling historical and popular works, the public perception of the Constitution and the prowess...
Show moreThe historiography of the early American navy and, more definitively, the USS Constitution's role in American consciousness revolve around the valorous acts associated with the naval engagement between the Constitution and the HMS Guerriere during the War of 1812. The basis for this mass public appeal was presented, disseminated, and perpetuated by historians, journalists, and popular writers. Paralleling historical and popular works, the public perception of the Constitution and the prowess of America's frigate fleet as a whole subsequently rose to dizzying heights after the War of 1812—based on the evidence emanating from a single naval engagement that lasted just over half an hour. This work seeks to examine how the Constitution ascended to such great military heights when all the odds were against American naval hegemony following the Revolutionary War. By comparing and contrasting naval correspondence, captain's logs, and ship records associated with America's original frigate fleet, a better sense of the collective biographies of the six frigates will be achieved; and, in the process, lend greater perspective to the history of the early American Navy. The methodology of this dissertation is to view the American Navy through the lens of the captains, officers, and crew that served on the Constitution. While this study looks to add insight into naval development by comparing and contrasting each of the original six American frigates, the USS Constitution is at the center of the investigation. This is a case study that utilizes the Constitution as a means to view and balance the successes and failures of the early American Navy.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_2015fall_Byington_fsu_0071E_12858
Format: Thesis

Title: Failing to Prepare or Preparing to Fail?: the Iraqi and American Armies Between 1991 and 2003.
Creator: Drury, John Jacob, Garretson, Peter, Creswell, Michael, Souva, Mark, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The Iraqi and American armies made changes in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War, but they made those changes within the constraints imposed upon them by their political overseers and their own political cultures. Unlike other works regarding the conflicts between Iraq and the United States, which are often historical narratives of the wars themselves, this paper is a comparative analysis of the changes made and the effects they would eventually have on the two states' respective performances in...
Show moreThe Iraqi and American armies made changes in the wake of the 1991 Gulf War, but they made those changes within the constraints imposed upon them by their political overseers and their own political cultures. Unlike other works regarding the conflicts between Iraq and the United States, which are often historical narratives of the wars themselves, this paper is a comparative analysis of the changes made and the effects they would eventually have on the two states' respective performances in 2003. The Iraqi Army was badly hindered by Saddam Hussein's belief that they represented a threat to him. This suspicion caused the Iraqi dictator to form multiple rival services that competed with the Iraqi Army for men, equipment, and funding. Saddam also promoted on the basis of perceived loyalty, dismissing competent officers as threats to his power. Finally, the U.N.-imposed sanctions prevented Iraq from replacing destroyed or dilapidated weapons. The United States Army, in contrast, engaged in an expensive effort to correct perceived flaws in its force structure. At the same time, due to budget cuts, the United States Army had to find ways to perform the same duties with fewer resources. It did so using two paths. First, it attempted to modify its equipment and force structure in order to provide soldiers with firepower that would previously have been available only to larger units. Second, it made increased use of private contractors in an effort to free uniformed soldiers for combat duties. In the end, neither Iraq nor the United States was fully prepared for the war in 2003. Iraq's forces were designed with internal security in mind; repelling an external enemy as powerful as the United States proved to be beyond their capabilities. The United States Army was fully capable and prepared for the initial campaign against the Iraqi Army, but it found itself unable to control the subsequent outburst of civil strife.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0657
Format: Thesis

Title: Setting the Stage: Dance and Gender in Old-Line New Orleans Carnival Balls, 1870-1920.
Creator: Atkins, Jennifer, Sinke, Suzanne, Perpener, John O., Hadden, Sally, Conner, V.J., Young, Tricia, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Mardi Gras Carnival balls are traditional New Orleans events when krewe organizations present their seasonal mock monarchs. Traditionally, these ballroom spectacles included tableaux vivants performances, the grand march and promenade of the season's royal court, special dances with masked krewemen, and general ballroom dancing. These events reinforced generational ties through the display of social power in a place where women were crystallized into perfect images of Southern beauty. Since...
Show moreMardi Gras Carnival balls are traditional New Orleans events when krewe organizations present their seasonal mock monarchs. Traditionally, these ballroom spectacles included tableaux vivants performances, the grand march and promenade of the season's royal court, special dances with masked krewemen, and general ballroom dancing. These events reinforced generational ties through the display of social power in a place where women were crystallized into perfect images of Southern beauty. Since the mid nineteenth century, old-line krewes (the oldest, most elite Carnival organizations) have cultivated patriarchal traditions in their ball presentations and have acted as historical vehicles of commentary on personal and social identity. The manner in which krewe members used their bodies to proclaim their royalty, to promenade, or to dance, all signified individual social roles and represented the evolving mores of their connected group. Likewise, masked courtiers and fashionable guests used their bodies in ballroom dancing to uphold or refute acceptable standards of male and female behavior. From 1870 to 1920, old-line krewes dominated the private terrain of New Orleans Mardi Gras. Through their steadfast commitment to performing white elitism, traditional krewes set the stage for the gender battles of the twentieth century, when female, black, and gay bodies, within newly formed krewes, used dance in their own carnival balls to define modern and diverse sexual, personal, and communal identities.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0806
Format: Thesis

Title: "Acribillados Y Torturados": Newspapers and the Militarized State in Counterrevolutionary Guatemala.
Creator: Pichoff, Damon, Herrera, Robinson, Childs, Matt, Friedman, Max Paul, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis is a discursive analysis of the daily Guatemalan newspaper, El Imparcial. It is a cultural study of attitudes toward the illegitimate militarized state, the role of ethnicity and class, and modernization as a shared goal between traditional elites and the burgeoning class of military officers turned economic elites. Based on an examination of hundreds of pages of Guatemalan newspapers, spanning nearly a decade, and housed in special collections in the Latin American Libraries of...
Show moreThis thesis is a discursive analysis of the daily Guatemalan newspaper, El Imparcial. It is a cultural study of attitudes toward the illegitimate militarized state, the role of ethnicity and class, and modernization as a shared goal between traditional elites and the burgeoning class of military officers turned economic elites. Based on an examination of hundreds of pages of Guatemalan newspapers, spanning nearly a decade, and housed in special collections in the Latin American Libraries of the University of Florida and Tulane University, the thesis treats topics such as how elites chose to make sense of a rapidly changing and uncertain world. The thesis focuses on three central elements: violence reporting, consumer and political advertising, and reporting of national development. I argue that El Imparcial, as a supposed elite vehicle within the militarized state, presents many contradictory messages for its readers. El Imparcial wavered in its political support for the state as demonstrated by the trends in violence reporting; the paper's consumer and political ads that sent similar contradictory messages of the state. Conversely, the adverts did send a consistent message of rigid social hierarchies promoted by a limited consumption style. El Imparcial's coverage of developmental projects reveals the paper's closest marriage to the militarized state. Development strategies served both civilian elites and the militarized state in mutually self-interested ways. Taken together, these elements reveal a complex cultural artifact with many opportunities for complicit and dissenting voices. It also shows how newspapers contributed to making the perception of violence into an unremarkable quotidian reality and how they encouraged the virulent dehumanization of Native peoples. The thesis shows the necessity of cultural history to explore the complexities of a contested history during a key transitional period in Guatemala's history, from a state dominated by elites and protected by the military, into a full fledged militarized state where military officers became coequals with traditional elites.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0910
Format: Thesis

Title: Protest at the Pyramid: The 1968 Mexico City Olympics and the Politicization of the Olympic Games.
Creator: Witherspoon, Kevin B., Jones, James P., O'Sullivan, Patrick, Richardson, Joe M., Conner, Valerie J., Herrera, Robinson, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation examines the importance of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. It explores briefly the history of the Olympic movement in Mexico, and the origins of the Mexican bid to host the Olympics. In winning the bid, the Mexican Olympic Committee not only staged a thorough and well-prepared presentation, but also shrewdly negotiated the waters between the Cold War superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. Even before the Opening Ceremonies, these Olympics were fraught with...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the importance of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. It explores briefly the history of the Olympic movement in Mexico, and the origins of the Mexican bid to host the Olympics. In winning the bid, the Mexican Olympic Committee not only staged a thorough and well-prepared presentation, but also shrewdly negotiated the waters between the Cold War superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. Even before the Opening Ceremonies, these Olympics were fraught with controversy, including the altitude issue, the debate over amateurism, and the question of whether to admit South Africa, which proved so divisive it inspired an international boycott movement. Each of these controversies detracted from the purely athletic interest in the Games, lending them a political feel from the beginning. These controversies were soon superceded by the "Revolt of the Black Athlete" in the United States, as black athletes threatened to boycott the Games, and a burgeoning student movement in Mexico. The latter ended in a brutal massacre initiated by Mexican police and authorities. The movement among black athletes peaked as Tommie Smith and John Carlos delivered the black power salute while on the medal stand, again drawing attention away from the athletic contests. The dissertation concludes with an analysis of the broader significance of the Olympics, from its economic impact to the meanings of the social movements attached to it. By the end of the fortnight, several hundred Mexican students lay dead, racial discord in the United States was again a topic of international discussion, and all aspirations for a separation of sport and politics lay in ruins.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0920
Format: Thesis

Title: A Rough, Wet Ride: The Civilian Genesis of the American Motor Torpedo Boat.
Creator: Wiser, Edward H., Jones, James P., Chanton, Jeffrey, Creswell, Michael C., Grant, Jonathan, Garretson, Peter, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Dwight Eisenhower once warned of an insidious collusion between industry and government that threatened to become master of United States domestic and foreign policy. His warning came too late, of course, for the threat had already become reality before he spoke. But there were and are positive elements to the merger of interests, and one of them was the infusion of civilian small craft expertise into the arena of national defense. This dissertation is an overview of the evolution of small...
Show moreDwight Eisenhower once warned of an insidious collusion between industry and government that threatened to become master of United States domestic and foreign policy. His warning came too late, of course, for the threat had already become reality before he spoke. But there were and are positive elements to the merger of interests, and one of them was the infusion of civilian small craft expertise into the arena of national defense. This dissertation is an overview of the evolution of small combatant craft in the United States Navy and demonstrates that the most successful of these boats have consistently come from the civilian sector. The history of this intercourse is traced from its origins in the American Revolution through its ultimate incarnation of the motor torpedo boat of World War Two. Experience in Vietnam and ongoing counter-terror and drug interception operations worldwide, demonstrates conclusively that rugged, efficient boats for security, patrol, and combat are still an essential factor in law enforcement, homeland defense, and power projection, and the services have come to rely increasingly upon the domestic small craft industry to supply them.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0922
Format: Thesis

Title: Sergei Rudnev and a Discussion of Selected Works from the Russian Collection Volume III.
Creator: Stuart, Morgan David, Holzman, Bruce, Clendinning, Jane Piper, Sauer, Greg, Punter, Melanie L., Florida State University, College of Music
Abstract/Description: Sergei Rudnev’s collection of Russian folk songs arranged for the classical guitar provide an opportunity for musicians to learn about rural and urban Russian folk songs. Russian guitarists are well-aware of Rudnev both for his classical guitar compositions and for being a great performer. His pieces are performed often in recitals and competitions in Russia. Rudnev is even considered a “national treasure”, yet his popularity in the west is not comparable. The most well-known piece is The Old...
Show moreSergei Rudnev’s collection of Russian folk songs arranged for the classical guitar provide an opportunity for musicians to learn about rural and urban Russian folk songs. Russian guitarists are well-aware of Rudnev both for his classical guitar compositions and for being a great performer. His pieces are performed often in recitals and competitions in Russia. Rudnev is even considered a “national treasure”, yet his popularity in the west is not comparable. The most well-known piece is The Old-Lime Tree, yet others within The Russian Collection Volume III deserve just as much attention. I have chosen to write this treatise on three of the pieces that I performed for my Doctoral Lecture Recital: The Wanderer’s Song, The Old-Lime Tree, and The Snowball Tree. I have also included a fourth piece, Dance Song, to represent the faster folk-dance styles. These four pieces represent some of the different genres of urban and rural Russian folk songs found within the collection. This treatise is meant to be used as a helpful resource for those guitarists seeking additional information on the works found in The Russian Collection Vol. III. Along with my discussion of the pieces, I will also include a short biography of Sergei Rudnev, as well as the series editor, Matanya Ophee. I was fortunate enough to come across Rudnev’s email address by means of a correspondence with the 2012 Guitar Foundation of America winner, Rovshan Mamedkuliev. I then conducted an interview with Rudnev and have included it in this treatise. The only problem that I encountered with interviewing Rudnev was that he only spoke Russian. I was fortunate enough to find a translator that would work within my budget, and Rudnev was incredibly kind and willing to be interviewed. The entire email correspondence will be included in both Russian and English in this treatise.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_SUMMER2017_Stuart_fsu_0071E_13815
Format: Thesis

Title: James Fenimore Cooper 1820-1852 Book History, Bibliography, and the Political Novel.
Creator: Lenz, Bradley Andrew, Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, François, Hellweg, Joseph, Faulk, Barry J., Gontarski, S. E., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in...
Show moreLenz, Bradley Andrew, Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, François, Hellweg, Joseph, Faulk, Barry J., Gontarski, S. E., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities
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Abstract/Description: James Fenimore Cooper’s work as a political activist is the underlying subject of this monograph. This study looks at how Cooper used his political writing to disseminate the ideology of the radical enlightenment. Cooper’s specific support for the independence of Poland is examined within its historical context. This work explores Cooper’s relationship to the Polish cause. It is an aspect of Cooper scholarship that is necessary to understand his political activity. This study is primarily...
Show moreJames Fenimore Cooper’s work as a political activist is the underlying subject of this monograph. This study looks at how Cooper used his political writing to disseminate the ideology of the radical enlightenment. Cooper’s specific support for the independence of Poland is examined within its historical context. This work explores Cooper’s relationship to the Polish cause. It is an aspect of Cooper scholarship that is necessary to understand his political activity. This study is primarily interested in Cooper’s use of the political writing to disperse the tenets of American political and social life into European populations. Cooper’s critical heritage is examined in this study. The personal relationship between Cooper and Walter Scott is examined. This relationship grew to personify the cultural war that divided England and America. Cooper’s literary reputation was harmed by English critics that resented his political activism. Bibliographical analysis supplied the quantitative data needed to develop Cooper’s imprint distribution frequencies. The data from Cooper’s enumerative bibliography allowed contrasts to be made between political and non-political fiction and non-fiction. Analysis of distribution frequencies supplied answers to questions concerning the popularity of Cooper’s political novels compared to his non-political novels. Bibliographical data in this study supplies facts about the distribution of Cooper’s texts. Cooper’s activism and political ideology is placed in the context of American philosophy as proto-pragmatism. Resistance to hereditary monarchy and European political systems is indicative of an evasion of European philosophy that characterized American intellectual circles. Cooper is placed in the tradition of American thought that founded the philosophy of pragmatism.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_SUMMER2017_Lenz_fsu_0071E_13927
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Title: On the Outskirts of Babylon: Representations of Motherhood in Fourth Century Latin Christian Literature.
Creator: Short, Harold L., Kelley, Nicole, Fulkerson, Laurel, Goff, Matthew J., Levenson, David B., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religion
Abstract/Description: Though previous scholarship has placed emphasis on the anti-familial rhetoric employed by ancient Christians, Christian discourse on motherhood was actually quite mixed. I demonstrate this point by examining specific representations of motherhood in fourth-century Latin sources. In the first and last chapters, I look at the use of motherhood in figurative language, especially as it was used to understand the nature of God and the character of women's asceticism. Though one might expect some...
Show moreThough previous scholarship has placed emphasis on the anti-familial rhetoric employed by ancient Christians, Christian discourse on motherhood was actually quite mixed. I demonstrate this point by examining specific representations of motherhood in fourth-century Latin sources. In the first and last chapters, I look at the use of motherhood in figurative language, especially as it was used to understand the nature of God and the character of women's asceticism. Though one might expect some Christians to have excluded motherhood from their frame of reference, even the most strident proponents of asceticism used motherhood to "think with," suggesting the appropriation of motherhood as a Christian means for signification. Other chapters address representations of specific mothers, including Helena, the mother of the emperor Constantine; Monica, the mother of Augustine; and Melania the Elder and Paula, two aristocratic mothers devoted to asceticism. In each instance, Christians offered qualified praise – and, sometimes, qualified criticism – of motherhood as a vocation for Christian women. The result of this study is a more nuanced understanding of Christian motherhood in the fourth century, one that shifts the focus from the repudiation of reproduction and the evils of parenthood to a greater emphasis on the ambiguity of the family. Finally, this provides important insights into the negotiation of the ascendance of asceticism and the melding of Roman and Christian values.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_2017SP_Short_fsu_0071E_13768
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