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Title: European Re-Union: Representations of Eastern Europe in NATO and EU Expansion.
Creator: Dittmer, Jason N., O'Sullivan, Patrick, Grant, Jonathan, Leib, Jonathan, Kodras, Jan, Department of Geography, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation seeks to establish the relationship between formal political processes, such as NATO and EU expansion, and the formation and reconstruction of identity, in this case "Western" identity and "European" identity. By studying this nexus between political action and identity formation some conclusions regarding the meanings of those identities are drawn. The methodology used to study this intersection of politics and identity is a content analysis of newspaper articles covering...
Show moreThis dissertation seeks to establish the relationship between formal political processes, such as NATO and EU expansion, and the formation and reconstruction of identity, in this case "Western" identity and "European" identity. By studying this nexus between political action and identity formation some conclusions regarding the meanings of those identities are drawn. The methodology used to study this intersection of politics and identity is a content analysis of newspaper articles covering NATO and EU expansion from April 17, 1991 to April 19, 2002 found in the Lexis-Nexis newspaper database. The output of this analysis is a series of representations, not only of Eastern Europe but also of specific states within Eastern Europe (such as Russia) and regional identities such as Central Europe or the Baltic States. These representations are taken (with historical evidence) to constitute, to varying degrees, the "Other" for NATO and the EU. Thus, these representations are used to reflect back on the identities that are inherent to those organizations, namely that of "the West" and "Europe".
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0727
Format: Thesis

Title: Student Development and Studio Management in Applied Music Teaching through Implementation of the Situational Leadership Model.
Creator: Lacey, Jonathan M. (Jonathan Marlon), Drew, John Robert, Clary, Richard, Moore, Christopher, Stebleton, Michelle, Florida State University, College of Music
Abstract/Description: Situational Leadership is a business management model that has been used in many of the top Fortune 500 companies, the United States Military, and educational administration since the early 1980s. This model provides a simplified approach for managers leading various levels of employees. The focus of this treatise will be to show how an applied professor can incorporate this model into his/her approach when working on studio management and student development. The four categories, or...
Show moreSituational Leadership is a business management model that has been used in many of the top Fortune 500 companies, the United States Military, and educational administration since the early 1980s. This model provides a simplified approach for managers leading various levels of employees. The focus of this treatise will be to show how an applied professor can incorporate this model into his/her approach when working on studio management and student development. The four categories, or Developmental Levels (D1, D2, D3, and D4), of Situational Leadership are each defined by two rubrics: Competency and Commitment. Level One is Low Competency-High Commitment and describes a student that is new but eager to learn. Level Two is Low Competency-Low Commitment and could be a younger student who is not as interested in a particular task. Level Three is High Competency-Variable Commitment. This would describe a student with fine skills but may feel stagnant or one whose buy-in could waver. Level Four is High Competency-High Commitment and might describe a student that is more experienced and takes school and their future career more seriously. The teacher’s Leadership Styles (S1, S2, S3, and S4) would then vary based on the needs of the student defined by two rubrics: Support and Direction. Competency and Commitment level of the individual student would have a specific correlation to the amount of Support necessary to affect Commitment and Direction necessary to affect Competency. The Leadership Styles correspond to Development Levels in such a manner to optimize the teacher-student relationship.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Lacey_fsu_0071E_15154
Format: Thesis

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 "Masterly Inactivity" to Limited Autonomy: Afghanistan as a Catalyst for Liberal Imperialism.
Creator: Laffer, Stephanie, Upchurch, Charles, Grant, Jonathan, Garretson, Peter, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Afghanistan was both the site of an experiment in traditional imperialism, as well as the first area where the concept of Liberal imperialism was introduced. The end of the Second Afghan War was a catalyst for British foreign policy. The aftermath of this war would lead to a reassessment of the goals of British imperial policy, including the eventual changes in the definition of imperialism. This thesis seeks to establish the role of the British experience in Afghanistan in the creation of...
Show moreAfghanistan was both the site of an experiment in traditional imperialism, as well as the first area where the concept of Liberal imperialism was introduced. The end of the Second Afghan War was a catalyst for British foreign policy. The aftermath of this war would lead to a reassessment of the goals of British imperial policy, including the eventual changes in the definition of imperialism. This thesis seeks to establish the role of the British experience in Afghanistan in the creation of Liberal imperialism. The personal beliefs and experiences of the most important figure of the Liberal Party, William Ewart Gladstone, the Prime Minister of Britain at the conclusion of the Second Afghan War (1878-1881), will be used to examine the moral values espoused by the Liberal Party in Afghanistan. These values can be seen in many contemporary sources, such as newspapers and Gladstone's personal correspondence and diaries. As this thesis intends to prove the British experience in Afghanistan served as a catalyst for Liberal imperialism, the term must first be defined by a study of the historiography of British imperial policy. To further this understanding of the British policies, attention will be paid to contemporary newspapers' portrayal of Afghanistan and Gladstone's actions concerning the country. In addition to papers from Britain, one newspaper from India, The Times of India, will also be consulted to gain local citizens impressions on the war. Although newspapers serve as an excellent source of contemporary opinion, letters written by and to Gladstone show another side of the issue. In his personal correspondence and diaries, Gladstone reveals his own opinions on Afghanistan, and how his policies in the country are a part of the overall moral foreign policy he advocated for Britain. The changes in British imperial policy initiated by the Liberal Imperialists would last until the end of the British Empire. Although most historians see the beginnings of Liberal imperialism with the struggle for African dominance in the late 1880s and 1890s, the role of the Second Afghan War and the resulting changes in foreign policy marked this turn towards a new imperialism. The impact of the British experience in Afghanistan is overlooked in the historiography of liberal imperialism, yet its role as a catalyst for new ideas of imperialism for both the Conservative and Liberal parties is not one which can be forgotten.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3321
Format: Thesis

Title: On War and the Winter War.
Creator: Karnisky, Robert, Grant, Jonathan, Creswell, Michael, Jones, James P., Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Renowned for its heroism, intrigue, pathos, and freezing cold, the compelling story of the Russo-Finnish War, in which "tiny" Finland repulsed a much larger Soviet invasion force, has been thoroughly studied and recorded. Less well-researched are the influences of military strategy on the generals in that war. The conflict provides many examples of the theories on warfare advanced by Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz in his book, Vom Kriege, first published in 1832, making it an excellent...
Show moreRenowned for its heroism, intrigue, pathos, and freezing cold, the compelling story of the Russo-Finnish War, in which "tiny" Finland repulsed a much larger Soviet invasion force, has been thoroughly studied and recorded. Less well-researched are the influences of military strategy on the generals in that war. The conflict provides many examples of the theories on warfare advanced by Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz in his book, Vom Kriege, first published in 1832, making it an excellent teaching tool for military scholars. Clausewitz proposed that any war could be understood according to his theories. While his book is regarded as a classic reference on war, few authors have actually applied his "trinitarian" analysis to a particular war, and none have examined the Russo-Finnish War in the scholarly fashion he recommends. The mistaken impression of unequal forces in the war is reconfigured as an asymmetry across his three interrelated categories: chance and probability, rational policy, and primordial violence. Closer investigation reveals that the so-called "Finnish Miracle" was no miracle at all, but an understandable outcome, clear enough to preclude any need to postulate miracles. Numerous subtopics continually resurface here. The degree to which Prusso-German military concepts, not only those of Clausewitz, affected the conduct of both sides in the war receives attention, as do Soviet leader Josef Stalin's ideologically-based attempts to purge their influence from the Red Army. The genius of the Finnish commander, Baron Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, and the courage of the Finns cannot be overlooked. Neither can the looming threat of Nazi Germany, nor the hesitancy of the overly cautious Western democracies to intervene. Using the trinitarian method to untangle this complex web of competing stratagems and policies, the author reveals why and how the war followed the course it did.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3335
Format: Thesis

Title: Glory Overshadowed: The Military Career of General Jean Boudet 1769-1809.
Creator: Fouché, Monica, Horward, Donald, Grant, Jonathan, Creswell, Michael, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the military career of general of division Jean Boudet. Born in Bordeaux, France in February 1769, and he joined the French army in 1785. Boudet was released three years later. He volunteered for the army in 1792 and was sent to the Pyrenees to fight the Spanish. Just two years later, he was sent to the Caribbean to retake the French Antilles from the English. Boudet recaptured Guadeloupe from England in 1794 and by 1796 he had been promoted to general of division. Boudet...
Show moreThis thesis examines the military career of general of division Jean Boudet. Born in Bordeaux, France in February 1769, and he joined the French army in 1785. Boudet was released three years later. He volunteered for the army in 1792 and was sent to the Pyrenees to fight the Spanish. Just two years later, he was sent to the Caribbean to retake the French Antilles from the English. Boudet recaptured Guadeloupe from England in 1794 and by 1796 he had been promoted to general of division. Boudet returned to France in 1798 and was sent to Holland under Brune to fight a combined Russo-English force. Boudet found success at the battle of Castricum on 6 October 1799. He commanded a division in the Army of Reserve in 1800 and played a vital role in the French victory at Marengo on 14 June 1800. In early 1802, Boudet returned to the Caribbean as a part of the Leclerc expedition. He fought on both Saint-Domingue and returned briefly to Guadeloupe. By the end of 1802, he sailed back to France and avoided yellow fever that destroyed the majority of the expedition. Boudet was appointed to serve under Marmont in the invasion force against England. After its cancellation, Boudet was sent to Italy to create a new division that he would command. This division did not see action until 1807 in the siege of Colberg and the raising of Stralsund in July 1807. Early 1809, Boudet was sent to command a division in the observation corps of the Army of Germany. He defended Essling at the battle of Aspern-Essling on 21-22 May 1809. About six weeks later, he fought in his final battle at Wagram on 5-6 July 1809 where he lost his artillery to the numerical superiority of the Austrians on the second day. Boudet died on 14 September 1809 from gout. Boudet's military achievements have remained largely ignored. Most of the credit went to his superiors. This thesis strives not only to provide an accurate description of his life and battles, but to offer a new perspective into Boudet's talents as a general and the actions and roles that distinguished him.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-4414
Format: Thesis

Title: Why the United States Must End the Second Cold War as It Begins.
Creator: Fernandez, Adam, Grant, Jonathan, Creswell, Michael, Upchurch, Charles, Program in International Affairs, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The Cold War ended with the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Things were fine for a time, but in recent years tensions have begun to emerge between these two nations. Policy makers in both Washington and Moscow seem to be reverting to their old habits of a Cold War mentality, and some have even said that we are witnessing the beginnings of a Second Cold War. But Cold War is not a natural state. In the over one-hundred and fifty year history of relations between the United States...
Show moreThe Cold War ended with the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Things were fine for a time, but in recent years tensions have begun to emerge between these two nations. Policy makers in both Washington and Moscow seem to be reverting to their old habits of a Cold War mentality, and some have even said that we are witnessing the beginnings of a Second Cold War. But Cold War is not a natural state. In the over one-hundred and fifty year history of relations between the United States and Russia, only forty of those years made up the Cold War. The majority of these years were characterized by peace, and there were even times when the two called each other allies. Now must be another of those times. The global threats of international terrorism, nuclear containment and proliferation, and plateauing energy supplies cannot be resolved by either the United States or Russia alone. Working for cross-purposes on these issues would lead to failure on both sides. However, due to the existing high tensions over American Anti-Ballistic Missile Diplomacy, NATO expansion into Eastern Europe, and Russia's invasion of Georgia, fruitful negotiations on these issues would be next to impossible at the present time. The solution must be a confidence building measure, but one as far from Eastern Europe and the Caucuses as possible; one excellent opportunity is in Japan. Near the end of World War II, the issue of Russian involvement in the war with Japan was one of the issues of contention which would lead to the Cold War. Because of America's role in Japan during the Cold War, Japan and the Soviet Union would never reach a peace agreement officially ending World War II. Since the end of the Cold War, low motivation and a minor border dispute have kept the two from reaching an official peace agreement. America's role in these negotiations will be to nudge the two towards peace, while at the same time signaling to Russia that the Cold War is officially over and that the United States is open to discussions on the true issues of contention. The United States needs Russia's help with its greatest challenges as it continues in the twenty-first century. The time to end the Second Cold War is now.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-4474
Format: Thesis

Title: Bystanders to the Holocaust: Skepticism in the American Press, 1942-1945.
Creator: Farrell, Kelly M., Grant, Jonathan, Gellately, Robert, Oldson, William, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Historical scholarship has certainly condemned the mainstream American press for their indifference towards the news of Jewish persecution under Adolph Hitler in Europe from 1933 to 1945. It has been documented that the major American presses perpetuated apathy among their readers from the outset of Nazi control in Germany. Building on previous scholarship, this thesis focuses on the coverage of the liberations of the concentration camps in the American press. It attempts to address why the...
Show moreHistorical scholarship has certainly condemned the mainstream American press for their indifference towards the news of Jewish persecution under Adolph Hitler in Europe from 1933 to 1945. It has been documented that the major American presses perpetuated apathy among their readers from the outset of Nazi control in Germany. Building on previous scholarship, this thesis focuses on the coverage of the liberations of the concentration camps in the American press. It attempts to address why the American press, who practically ignored news of the Holocaust throughout the war, did not announce the liberations that were so thoroughly documented by American troops, politicians, and reporters. The introduction focuses on establishing the historical precedent for studying this problem. It presents the historiography of the topic to this point and analyzes the shortcomings of prior works and sources. The first chapter examines the period from January 1942, when Hitler announced his plans for the "Final Solution," to April 1945, when American troops liberated their first concentration camp at Ohrdruf. Chapter two analyzes the imperative months of April and May 1945. For Americans, this was the first evidence they physically encountered, even though confirmation of the Holocaust had been established many years prior. Even at this point, when Americans and more importantly American journalists had physical proof, the stories presented in the American press were lacking and buried in the back pages of major newspapers and magazines. The last chapter, the conclusion, analyzes this phenomenon and attempts to examine how American attitudes changed from May 1945 to October 1945, when the Nuremberg Trials were carried out to convict those who participated in the massacre. It was not merely anti-Semitism that caused the colossally important story of the Holocaust to be buried by the American press; rather, it was a multitude of motives including doubt, skepticism, selfish purposes, and a hesitancy to the report unverified accusations.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-4498
Format: Thesis

Title: In the Name of the Russian People but Not for Them: President Wilson, the Allies, and Limited Intervention in Russia, 1918 to 1920.
Creator: Fierro, Frank Edward, Grant, Jonathan, Friedman, Max, Halpern, Paul, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The objective of this thesis is twofold. I first wish to address all four of the major theories revolving around the motives for the intervention into Russia, as no other work has done so. The first theory is that the war in Europe spurred the Allies to intervene in Russia- to keep Russian resources out of German hands. The saving of the Czechoslovak Legion from the Bolsheviks is a second theory. The fear of Bolshevism and the wish to strangle it in the cradle, as Churchill put it, is a third...
Show moreThe objective of this thesis is twofold. I first wish to address all four of the major theories revolving around the motives for the intervention into Russia, as no other work has done so. The first theory is that the war in Europe spurred the Allies to intervene in Russia- to keep Russian resources out of German hands. The saving of the Czechoslovak Legion from the Bolsheviks is a second theory. The fear of Bolshevism and the wish to strangle it in the cradle, as Churchill put it, is a third theory. The fourth and last theory is that the impetus for intervention came from a fear that a unilateral intervention by Japan in Siberia would lead to Japanese conquest- and the United States was unwilling to see this occur. I will also test the validity of these four theories against the primary sources, and this is also a novel aspect among intervention literature. The facts indicate that the Czechoslovak Legion was not a major cause for the Allies. Stopping Germany and, for the U.S., stopping Japan, seem to be the strongest motivations for the intervention. Bolshevism was an influence on the Allies, but not strong enough an influence to cause the intervention on its own. The second objective of this thesis is to ask a number of questions about the actions of President Woodrow Wilson during the intervention. Again, these questions are unique, no other work on the intervention asks them (the exception is Foglesong's work, which asks some of these questions, but gives no answers and no evidence on which to build answers). There is some speculation that the intervention in Russia was similar to another action in Mexico (1914), which was headed by Wilson. Were these interventions run on similar lines? Yes, but there were minor differences in the interventions. The indication is that the Russian action was directed, its policy created, by Wilson alone. What was Wilson's role? Based on the above, the Aide Mémoire, and other information, Wilson was the leader of the intervention. Finally, if the intervention was run by Wilson, why that Wilson was not opposed to the intervention, but wanted to wait for the right time to use U.S. troops.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-4464
Format: Thesis

Title: Imperial Venture: The Evolution of the British East India Company, 1763-1813.
Creator: Williams, Matthew, Blaufarb, Rafe, Grant, Jonathan, Jones, James P., Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Europe's dominance in the study of the Revolutionary Era obscures the era's many important non-European effects. Equally, scholars of India neglect the important role European imperial rivalry had on the British conquest of India in particular during the Revolutionary Era. These four key factors drove the British East India Company's corporate evolution: the decline of the Mughal Empire, Anglo-French imperial rivalry, Parliamentary reform of the East India Company, and the French...
Show moreEurope's dominance in the study of the Revolutionary Era obscures the era's many important non-European effects. Equally, scholars of India neglect the important role European imperial rivalry had on the British conquest of India in particular during the Revolutionary Era. These four key factors drove the British East India Company's corporate evolution: the decline of the Mughal Empire, Anglo-French imperial rivalry, Parliamentary reform of the East India Company, and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Between 1763 and 1813, these factors forced the British East India Company to undergo a radical and rapid transformation from private joint stock company to quasi-governmental institution. The aforementioned factors and their unforeseen consequences compelled the East India Company to develop many of the attributes of a state: an army, a taxation system, a judiciary, bureaucracy, and foreign relations. These factors also compelled the East India Company to conquer India and eliminate its corporate and local rivals. By 1805, the East India Company become the master of India and by 1813 it had established firm control over the Indian Ocean. By 1813, the British East India Company had become a peculiar hybrid, a corporate-state.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-5274
Format: Thesis

Title: "As Blond as Hitler": Positive Eugenics and Fatherhood in the Third Reich.
Creator: Carney, Amy Beth, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Grant, Jonathan, Childs, Matt, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: In seeking to build the Thousand Year Reich, the German government under the administration of the National Socialist party constructed many different ideologies to create the foundation for its new community. Although not as highly prominent others, the ideology of fatherhood had a role in the formation of this state. Because of the scientific trends prevalent during the early to mid twentieth century, fatherhood at this time had a strong biological bent; men were mainly regarded as fathers...
Show moreIn seeking to build the Thousand Year Reich, the German government under the administration of the National Socialist party constructed many different ideologies to create the foundation for its new community. Although not as highly prominent others, the ideology of fatherhood had a role in the formation of this state. Because of the scientific trends prevalent during the early to mid twentieth century, fatherhood at this time had a strong biological bent; men were mainly regarded as fathers due to their reproductive contributions. Therefore, the Nazi government wanted to encourage each man to sustain his personal lineage because a healthy, burgeoning population would guarantee the longevity of the German nation founded by its leadership. In seeking a stronger and larger population, the Nazi party adopted a contemporary science movement: eugenics. The government divided people based on racial criteria, and the individuals whom it deemed most eligible to pass on their genes belonged to the "blond hair, blue eyed" Aryan race. After firmly establishing this archetype as the ultimate goal, the state had to disseminate this information to the general population and persuade these people to adopt this racial hierarchy willingly. It propagated this information through both formal education and direct contact with the German people through speeches and publications. This instruction served to inspire healthy citizens to have offspring who would strengthen the position of Germany through racial superiority. Of the male German population, the men who best personified the Aryan elite belonged to the Schutzstaffeln (SS). As the most unwavering followers of the Nazi party and Adolf Hitler, the soldiers of the SS provided the best paternal audience. The leader of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, sought to convince these men that their responsibilities included supplying the Third Reich with an abundance of racially healthy children. Himmler's directives and other documents substantiated this desire to encourage his men to reproduce copiously and to furnish Germany with a new aristocracy based on blood. Furthermore, the newspaper of the SS, Das Schwarze Korps, publicly correlated many of Himmler's perspectives. Articles, editorials, and letters encourage marriage, link SS men with images of healthy families, and promote fatherhood as a respectable and natural duty. Despite these efforts, the SS did not raise the birthrate in Germany, and the inability to produce enough children resulted in the failure of the eugenical measures. However, an investigation into the role of fatherhood during this era still addresses many historiographical issues. Beyond showing one way in which the Nazi government attempted to foster a new national community, it demonstrates the changing role of paternity throughout the twentieth century as well as merges with studies of German fatherhood in the post Second World War era. Examining fatherhood also explains the attempted application of eugenics to increase the population of a country. Finally, it dovetails with existing research on motherhood during the Third Reich, and therefore provides a more comprehensive understanding of familial life and parental relations during the reign of the Nazi regime.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-4187
Format: Thesis

Title: With One Hand on My Gun and the Other on My Heart: A Comparative Analysis of European Resistance Movements and Their Relation to Jewish Resistance and Survival in World War II Europe.
Creator: Mcbee, Jared, Grant, Jonathan, Jones, James, Creswell, Michael, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the national resistance movements in Eastern and Western Europe during World War II and their relationship with Jewish resistors. The areas under consideration include the 1940 territory of the Soviet Union in the East as well as France, Belgium and the Netherlands in the West. It argues that there is a relationship between the national resistors and Jewish resistance, and the idea that Jews went meekly to their deaths in the Holocaust does not withstand investigation. In...
Show moreThis thesis examines the national resistance movements in Eastern and Western Europe during World War II and their relationship with Jewish resistors. The areas under consideration include the 1940 territory of the Soviet Union in the East as well as France, Belgium and the Netherlands in the West. It argues that there is a relationship between the national resistors and Jewish resistance, and the idea that Jews went meekly to their deaths in the Holocaust does not withstand investigation. In the East the Soviet partisans have been considered anti-Semitic and with good reason. However, the actions of Jewish-centric organizations and their members in the partisan war have been neglected. Resistance in Western Europe had a more integrated approach to membership and thus many Jews served in the national resistance. This helps to explain why Jews saw themselves more as Frenchmen, Dutch or Belgian citizens and less as Jews. This study departs from others in that the integration of Jewish resistance within national resistance movements has not been attempted on this scale. There are some micro-histories that deal with this combination in one country or one region but not a comparative analysis of multiple countries over two different regions. Placing primary emphasis on the Jewish struggle within the various resistance units allows historians a deeper understanding of the complexities of the partisan war. In addition, it counters the stubborn belief that the majority of Jews did not resist the Holocaust. This also aids in understanding the connection between Jewish and national resistance movements that were ongoing throughout the entirety of the Nazi occupation of Europe. This also means that Jewish resistance is much more complicated than the ghetto uprisings so frequently mentioned.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-6446
Format: Thesis

Title: Crimes Unpunished: An Investigative Look at the Soviet Use of Terror under Joseph Stalin, 1934-1953.
Creator: Rooney, Amanda C., Grant, Jonathan, Wynot, Edward, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis presents an investigative look at the events of the Soviet Terror from 1934-1953. It analyzes these events on two key levels. The first is the historiography and its continuing mysteries and shortcomings. The argument asserted is a call for future historical research to attempt to answer questions still unanswered and for a more comprehensive inclusion of all events that occurred under the leadership of Joseph Stalin. The Terror that existed under Joseph Stalin consists of three...
Show moreThis thesis presents an investigative look at the events of the Soviet Terror from 1934-1953. It analyzes these events on two key levels. The first is the historiography and its continuing mysteries and shortcomings. The argument asserted is a call for future historical research to attempt to answer questions still unanswered and for a more comprehensive inclusion of all events that occurred under the leadership of Joseph Stalin. The Terror that existed under Joseph Stalin consists of three major levels. The first is the Great Terror which encompassed the years 1936-1939. The second is the ongoing effect the Terror held on citizen life and how it transformed Soviet ways of life including jobs, family relationships, and fears. The third is the lesser terror period that occurred from 1939-1953 during the years of World War II and ended with Stalin's death. It is argued that while the Terror is a highly researched area of Soviet history, in today's world it deserves to receive more extensive coverage as other mass murders of the twentieth century. Historians should begin to undo the crimes of misinformation and uncover the truth for the victims, survivors, historians, and world understanding.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-1838
Format: Thesis

Title: Painted Interiors from the Houghton Shahnameh.
Creator: Lauren, Samantha, Garretson, Peter, Grant, Jonathan, Lee, Susan, Program in Asian Studies, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The following study utilizes a 1981 reproduction of a ca.1525, Safavid version of the Persian national epic, the Shahnameh, to investigate the manuscript's numerous illustrations of painted interior design. Initial research focuses on the history of wall painting in Iranian culture from the ancient through the Safavid eras. The following section offers a brief history of the Safavids themselves, as well as an overview of the immediate cultural and artistic influences that combined to create...
Show moreThe following study utilizes a 1981 reproduction of a ca.1525, Safavid version of the Persian national epic, the Shahnameh, to investigate the manuscript's numerous illustrations of painted interior design. Initial research focuses on the history of wall painting in Iranian culture from the ancient through the Safavid eras. The following section offers a brief history of the Safavids themselves, as well as an overview of the immediate cultural and artistic influences that combined to create their newly syncretized aesthetic. The body of the research concentrates on an original system of classification allowing each interior motif to be categorized as one of five basic types. Labeled A through E the master types are sub-divided into several lesser categories based on their degrees of separation from the original motif. In an attempt to trace each pattern's stylistic origins, the designs are evaluated in relation to three different media that either predate or are contemporary to the production of the Safavid Shahnameh: similar images from illustrated volumes, the literary accounts of extinct Timurid and Turkman murals and the wall paintings of extant edifices. A notable corollary to this research is the conclusion that a number of the Shahnameh's interior wall paintings exhibit far eastern, aesthetic influences that pre-date the Mongolian invasions of the thirteenth century. While it is difficult to classify each of the myriad layers of meaning projected on these images, quite a few of the motifs appear to contain Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Hindu and Sufi religious symbolism as well as Soghdian and Sassanian secular references. In particular it is proposed that, in many cases, the Shahnameh's illustrations are a reliable indication of the interior wall paintings that decorated contemporaneous Turkman and Timurid palaces.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3257
Format: Thesis

Title: Never Forget: How Public Memory of the Holocaust Is Displayed in Holocaust Museums and Memorials in Florida.
Creator: Hoekstra, Nicole, Koslow, Jennifer, Grant, Jonathan, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the similarities and differences between Florida's Holocaust museums and memorials and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The purpose of this study is to illustrate how each institution is a reflection of its local community and how that reflection is based on each institution's perceived audience. Holocaust awareness grew in the United States over the last sixty years, culminating in the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum...
Show moreThis thesis examines the similarities and differences between Florida's Holocaust museums and memorials and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The purpose of this study is to illustrate how each institution is a reflection of its local community and how that reflection is based on each institution's perceived audience. Holocaust awareness grew in the United States over the last sixty years, culminating in the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993. Since its opening the museum has served as a template for other museums on how to define the Holocaust and promote education. Museums in Florida that have opened post-1993 contain elements that are reminiscent of the national museum. At the same time, they are designed in a way that best represents the audience that each institution reaches. This thesis uses newspapers, institutional records, interviews, and the physical examination of the memorials and museums themselves, to analyze the creation of public memory. These institutions of Holocaust memory in Florida have created a sense of place for survivors and their loved ones. They are also places to honor the memory of the people whose lives were lost. Lastly, they are permanent fixtures that ensure that the story of the Holocaust will not be forgotten by future generations.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3998
Format: Thesis

Title: British Foreign Policy and the Arab Rebellion in Palestine: The Transformation of Middle East Politics, 1936-1939.
Creator: Ross, Jared S., Upchurch, Charles, Garretson, Peter, Grant, Jonathan, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The Palestine Mandate remains one of the most controversial topics in the historiography of twentieth-century British foreign policy. With the publication of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, Britain committed itself to the Jewish restoration of the Holy Land. Almost immediately, Britain found itself at the center of a longstanding feud between Jews and Arabs. The nature of the conflict pitted Pro-Zionist policymakers inside the British government against policymakers sympathetic to the Arab...
Show moreThe Palestine Mandate remains one of the most controversial topics in the historiography of twentieth-century British foreign policy. With the publication of the Balfour Declaration in 1917, Britain committed itself to the Jewish restoration of the Holy Land. Almost immediately, Britain found itself at the center of a longstanding feud between Jews and Arabs. The nature of the conflict pitted Pro-Zionist policymakers inside the British government against policymakers sympathetic to the Arab people. Parallel to the Jews and Arabs fighting for supremacy in the Middle East, administrators inside the offices of colonial and foreign affairs were locked in an ideological battle, pulling British foreign policy into two opposing directions. By 1936, Palestine became ungovernable due to a series of work strikes and escalating violence between the Jewish settlers and Palestinian Arabs. In turn, the Arab Rebellion of 1936 transformed the political landscape of the Middle East by forcing Britain to retreat from its earlier commitment to the Jewish people. In 1939, the British government published a new "White Paper" that restricted the number of Jewish immigrants allowed entry into Palestine every year. The purpose of this policy reversal was to placate the demands of Arab states, and shore up their support for Britain against the Axis Powers of Germany and Italy. Yet, the 1939 White Paper did not guarantee an end to hostilities between Britain and the Arab world. Rather, it had dire consequences for Britain's relations with the Zionist leadership, heretofore Britain's most dependable ally in the region. Forced into a corner, David Ben-Gurion, leader of the Labor Bloc in Palestine and executive officer of the Jewish Agency, executed a series of campaigns designed to subvert and undermine Britain's presence in Palestine. In the decade that followed the publication of the White Paper, it was the Yishuv of Palestine, not the Arab states, that forced Britain to withdraw from Palestine completely.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-1779
Format: Thesis

Title: From Tsars to Commissars: Continuities in Russian Modern Diplomatic History with Persia and Japan.
Creator: Hansford, Christopher, Grant, Jonathan, Creswell, Michael, Wynot, Edward, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The recent resurgence of the Russian Federation into international politics has caused a great stir in the capitals of Western Europe, the Untied Stated, and those of the former Soviet Union. When looking to the behavior of the Russian state, it is critical to understand the historical and geopolitical perspective from which they are operating. With the collapse of Soviet communism, there must clearly be major policy differences between the quasi-capitalist Russian Federation and its...
Show moreThe recent resurgence of the Russian Federation into international politics has caused a great stir in the capitals of Western Europe, the Untied Stated, and those of the former Soviet Union. When looking to the behavior of the Russian state, it is critical to understand the historical and geopolitical perspective from which they are operating. With the collapse of Soviet communism, there must clearly be major policy differences between the quasi-capitalist Russian Federation and its monolithic Communist predecessor, yes? To relate to this contemporary context, it is best to understand the Russian position in the geo-political arena and how that position largely remained cemented from the Imperial Tsarist to the Bolshevik Soviet periods. In doing so, a look away from Europe, from those states whose own aggressive and dynamic behaviors would muddy the waters is perhaps the best answer. With long standing ties and contests between Russia, Persia/Iran, and Japan, these two "Eastern" nations will be the central focus of this study, along with how Russian policy objectives, behaviors, and decisions were or were not impacted by the Russian Revolution of 1917. With an understanding of Russia's place through such a violent and dynamic political shift, this study aims to contribute to the historiography while adding modern relevance and understanding to the patterns of Russian diplomatic behavior.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-8799
Format: Thesis

Title: The Failure of the Entente: Protection of Poland's Volhynian Ukrainian Minority, 1921-1939.
Creator: Scott, Suzanne Elizabeth, Wynot, Edward, Grant, Jonathan, Romanchuk, Robert, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the relationships between the government of the Second Polish Republic, the Ukrainian minority in Volhynia, and the Entente powers during the interwar period. After World War II ended, the Entente required the Polish government to sign a Minority Rights Treaty to ensure the protection of the state's minorities. Poland signed the treaty and even incorporated its tenets into the 1921 Constitution. However, government officials did not follow the treaty's...
Show moreThe purpose of this thesis is to analyze the relationships between the government of the Second Polish Republic, the Ukrainian minority in Volhynia, and the Entente powers during the interwar period. After World War II ended, the Entente required the Polish government to sign a Minority Rights Treaty to ensure the protection of the state's minorities. Poland signed the treaty and even incorporated its tenets into the 1921 Constitution. However, government officials did not follow the treaty's stipulations, which provided for protection of religion, language, education, voting privileges, and private property – all the rights accorded to a citizen of a modern state. The Ukrainians in Volhynia, a territory annexed by Poland with the Treaty of Riga (1921), experienced a great deal of discrimination and disregard for the rights allotted to them in the Minority Rights Treaty. During World War II, Volhynia was the location of an ethnic cleansing of 40,000-60,000 Poles committed by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukraïns'ka Povstans'ka Armiia, or UPA). If the Entente powers had enforced the Minority Rights Treaty and investigated claims as they were required to do, World War II and post-World War II Volhynia possibly could have been different. This thesis explores Polish-Ukrainian relations in Volhynia during the interwar period in hopes of shedding some light on the reasons behind UPA's attacks.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-1971
Format: Thesis

Title: Reconquista and Convivencia: Post-Conquest Valencia during the Reign of Jaime I, El Conquistador: Interaction Between Christians and Muslims (1238-1276).
Creator: Ritt, Travis William, Strait, Paul, Garretson, Peter, Grant, Jonathan, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The Reconquista in Valencia has traditionally been viewed as an attack on Islam by the Christians of Muslim Spain. However, while there was certainly a religious component to the Reconquista, this was not the sole, or even the most important motivating factor. Operating under a veneer of religious legitimatization were the driving secular ideals of increased political power and wealth. Jaime I of Aragon-Catalonia was not interested in ridding the Iberian Peninsula of its Muslim influence, but...
Show moreThe Reconquista in Valencia has traditionally been viewed as an attack on Islam by the Christians of Muslim Spain. However, while there was certainly a religious component to the Reconquista, this was not the sole, or even the most important motivating factor. Operating under a veneer of religious legitimatization were the driving secular ideals of increased political power and wealth. Jaime I of Aragon-Catalonia was not interested in ridding the Iberian Peninsula of its Muslim influence, but rather substituting it with his own rule. This led to a situation in Valencia where Muslims not only survived in Valencia for multiple generations following the Reconquest, but were also allowed to keep many of the privileges that they had enjoyed under thier Muslim overlords. The current work then looks not so much at the belligerent aspects of the Reconquista, but rather at the oftentimes peaceful interaction between Muslims and Christians of the convivencia.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-1850
Format: Thesis

Title: Rearguard of the Confederacy: The Second Florida Infantry Regiment.
Creator: Turner, Shane M., Grant, Jonathan, Green, Elna, Creswell, Michael, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Among the popular Confederate accounts of the America Civil War, the men who served in the Army of Northern Virginia occupy positions of special celebrity and admiration. In print, on stage, in song, and on screen, the experiences of leaders and ordinary men who served in that army have attained almost mythological status. So many books have been published telling the histories of the men and units of that army that one might be led to falsely conclude that all the stories that are worth...
Show moreAmong the popular Confederate accounts of the America Civil War, the men who served in the Army of Northern Virginia occupy positions of special celebrity and admiration. In print, on stage, in song, and on screen, the experiences of leaders and ordinary men who served in that army have attained almost mythological status. So many books have been published telling the histories of the men and units of that army that one might be led to falsely conclude that all the stories that are worth telling have already been told. Such is not the case. Both lay and professional historians have, in the more than 140 years since the end of the conflict, produced new interpretations and published yet-untold stories every year. Yet, much remains to tell. One such story is that of the Second Florida Infantry Regiment. From the spring of 1861, when the regiment was formed, until the spring of 1865, when it surrendered, the men of the regiment had endured four full years of military life. They underwent discipline and chaos, slumber and sleep deprivation, abundance and hunger, and living and dying together. The Second Florida took part in nearly every campaign and fought in nearly every major battle in which the Army of Northern Virginia was engaged. The blood of many a member touched the soils of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was liberally sprinkled across the hills and fields of Virginia; such was the price of the glory they attained. Beyond the battlefield, the campaigning, and the marching, other than the active warfare, there are aspects of the Civil War, portions of a day, a night, and even whole months, that are not normally entered into the records of what happened to the men who fought in that great conflict. The members of the Second Florida, like all members of the Confederate Army, had many experiences apart from the active waging of war. There were months of encampment in winter quarters, and whole or parts of days, nights, and sometimes weekends at the beginning, end, and even during a campaign when they were inactive. These experiences are actually what filled the majority of the infantry soldier's life. The Civil War was not only about fighting and killing. It was also about hunger, boredom, cold, varying degrees of wetness, religion, and even love. This study tells the story of what the Second Florida Infantry Regiment did during the campaigns and battles in which the regiment took part, investigates the every-day experiences of the men of the unit, and explores the reasons the men had for staying with the regiment until the end of the conflict. There are several specific issues involving the lives of common soldiers during the Civil War about which historians have written little. Included in these topics are: how medical and sanitary conditions affected Civil War era armies; how the diet of soldiers affected a their health and unit morale; what the men did while not on the battlefield, and how they interacted with each other; and the role of religion in the lives of the men. In telling the military history of the regiment, this work includes several items that are absent from any other published history of the unit.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-1459
Format: Thesis

Title: The Story Behind the Story: Experience and Identity in the Development of Palestinian Nationalism 1917-1967.
Creator: Penziner, Victoria Lynn, Garretson, Peter, Grant, Jonathan, Wynot, Ed, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Prior to 1967, the liberation of the Palestinian people meant a coordinated attack by the Arab armies on Israel. After 1967, the liberation of the Palestinians fell to the people who inhabited the Territories-West Bank and Gaza and the refugee camps. The liberation became less of an elite, intellectual concept and more of a grass roots desire. These changes manifest themselves in a number of ways, but none so important as the changes in people and how their experiences relate to diplomatic...
Show morePrior to 1967, the liberation of the Palestinian people meant a coordinated attack by the Arab armies on Israel. After 1967, the liberation of the Palestinians fell to the people who inhabited the Territories-West Bank and Gaza and the refugee camps. The liberation became less of an elite, intellectual concept and more of a grass roots desire. These changes manifest themselves in a number of ways, but none so important as the changes in people and how their experiences relate to diplomatic and military data. Using oral history, memory and experience this work seeks to connect these three categories of data. The 1967 War was a turning point in the development of Palestinian identity both collectively and individually, however, this aspect of the war has been largely overlooked by scholars. By looking at the legacies of the British Mandatory period, the 1948 War, the affects of Pan-Arabism, the United Nations and the Palestine Liberation Organization, a greater understanding of the 1967 War and its importance on the individual level can be seen. This work examines not the diplomatic and course of the war, but how this war affected individual Palestinians using oral histories and personal experience. Due to the availability of sources, it focuses mainly on experiences of Palestinians within the West Bank and on men. Sources for women are more difficult to find and although female recollections included, gender is not discussed. This work relies heavily on experiences of Arabs in America and works in translation. As such, a discussion of the 1967's War impact on America is also discussed in detail.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-2033
Format: Thesis

Title: War Before History: A Critical Survey.
Creator: Myers, Darryl, Davis, Frederick, Creswell, Michael, Grant, Jonathan, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: War features prominently in history, that is, in the records of literate societies. This paper addresses the issue of prehistoric warfare, that is, whether human societies without writing fight wars, and if so how often, under what circumstances, what tactics and technology they use, and how their warfare differs from that of literate societies. As background, the paper reviews theoretical perspectives on prehistoric warfare and considers categories of data and problems with their...
Show moreWar features prominently in history, that is, in the records of literate societies. This paper addresses the issue of prehistoric warfare, that is, whether human societies without writing fight wars, and if so how often, under what circumstances, what tactics and technology they use, and how their warfare differs from that of literate societies. As background, the paper reviews theoretical perspectives on prehistoric warfare and considers categories of data and problems with their interpretation in the absence of primary documents. In particular, researchers continue to invoke the perspectives of the philosophers Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau as touchstones of their thoughts on the topic of prehistoric warfare. The author has no particular training or expertise in anthropology or archeology, but from reviewing the literature suggests that available data supports neither the Hobbesian nor the Rousseauian extreme. Societies without writing sometimes fight and sometimes do not, just as societies with writing do. Hobbes' war of all against all is as mythical as Rousseau's peaceful savage. The paper ends with a call for continuing more nuanced interdisciplinary research into the issue of prehistoric warfare and its implications.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-2153
Format: Thesis

Title: Image Is Everything: The Centrality of Prestige in Russian and Austro-Hungarian Foreign Policy, 1904-1914.
Creator: Nunn, William Weston, Grant, Jonathan, Garretson, Peter, Creswell, Michael, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines and analyzes Russian and Austro-Hungarian foreign policy and the rivalry between them between 1904-1914. It asserts the centrality of prestige-garnering as a motivator of their Balkan diplomacy, not only to project an image of strength to their European rivals, but to distract from each's volatile and parlous domestic situation. Both Russia and Austria-Hungary pursued a Balkan policy that emphasized form over substance in order to convince their subjects and rivals that...
Show moreThis thesis examines and analyzes Russian and Austro-Hungarian foreign policy and the rivalry between them between 1904-1914. It asserts the centrality of prestige-garnering as a motivator of their Balkan diplomacy, not only to project an image of strength to their European rivals, but to distract from each's volatile and parlous domestic situation. Both Russia and Austria-Hungary pursued a Balkan policy that emphasized form over substance in order to convince their subjects and rivals that their integrities were intact and unassailable. Instead of more tangible foreign policy goals like territory or economics, abstract notions of imperial dignity, honor, and Great Power status, ideas that became the primary reason for the Great War's outbreak, fueled the rivalry between the two eastern monarchies. The scope of this study is a departure from other accounts of European Great Power diplomacy because it concentrates on the decade before the war instead of a lengthy narrative since the defeat of Napoleon in 1815. In addition, instead of bringing into the discussion the entirety of the European Congress, this thesis focuses on the struggle between the Romanov and Habsburg states to be recognized as the mistress of southeastern Europe. By focusing on the prestige rivalry between St. Petersburg and Vienna, this study shifts the focus from the Anglo-Germany naval rivalry in the North Sea to the wrangling over the Balkan Peninsula, the region in which the war's first shots were fired. As a result, it challenges the notion that Germany is most responsible for the chaos, asserting instead that Austria-Hungary is the most to blame.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-2493
Format: Thesis

Title: The U.S. Army's 2nd Ranger Battalion: Beyond D-Day.
Creator: Quistorff, Alissa, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Grant, Jonathan, Creswell, Michael, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis is a micro-history of how the 2nd Ranger Battalion, during World War II evolved their military doctrine. This work focuses on their training for operation Pointe du Hoc and the ensuing battle. After the fight for Pointe du Hoc the Rangers were deployed in a variety of ways. Be examining the Brest campaign, the battles in the Hurtgen Forest, and the crossing of the Rhine River, the Ranger doctrine slowly begins to emerge.
Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-2255
Format: Thesis

Title: The Effects of Nationalism on Territorial Integrity Among Armenians and Serbs.
Creator: Patelic, Nina, Grant, Jonathan, Garretson, Peter, Souva, Mark, Program in International Affairs, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Nationalism has been a driving force in both nation building and in spurring high levels of violence. As nations have become the norm in modern day society, nationalism has become detrimental to international law, which protects the powers of sovereignty. In the latter part of the twentieth century, secessionist groups and the international community alike have disputed the call for independence by citing the right to majority rule, despite legally bound borders. This paper examines the...
Show moreNationalism has been a driving force in both nation building and in spurring high levels of violence. As nations have become the norm in modern day society, nationalism has become detrimental to international law, which protects the powers of sovereignty. In the latter part of the twentieth century, secessionist groups and the international community alike have disputed the call for independence by citing the right to majority rule, despite legally bound borders. This paper examines the history of nationalism, with particular emphasis on the cases Serbia and Armenia. It explores the history of two disputed regions-Kosovo and Nagorno Karabakh, and analyzes those tragic events in the 1990's that placed them on the forefront of international relations.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-2298
Format: Thesis

Title: The Forgotten Service: The French Navy of the Old Regime, 1650-1789.
Creator: Byington, Richard, Blaufarb, Rafe, Liebeskind, Claudia, Grant, Jonathan, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis explores the effectiveness of the French navy during the Old Regime. The maritime strategies and policies of the French navy are evaluated in an effort to determine if the French navy of the Old Regime was successful in fulfilling state goals.
Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-2924
Format: Thesis

Title: Making of a Marshal: Bertrand Clauzel Takes Command of the Army of Portugal, 1812.
Creator: Graceffo, Jeffrey, Horward, Donald, Creswell, Michael, Grant, Jonathan, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Historians have studied Napoleon's Peninsular War for nearly 200 years, focusing in great detail on its military aspect. While many studies are devoted to the Duke of Wellington, Marshal Andre Massena, or other French marshals, there are some individuals who had a remarkable impact on the Peninsula that have been ignored. During the Battle of Salamanca in July 1812, French General Bertrand Clauzel became commander of the Army of Portugal. After the battle, he remained in command for several...
Show moreHistorians have studied Napoleon's Peninsular War for nearly 200 years, focusing in great detail on its military aspect. While many studies are devoted to the Duke of Wellington, Marshal Andre Massena, or other French marshals, there are some individuals who had a remarkable impact on the Peninsula that have been ignored. During the Battle of Salamanca in July 1812, French General Bertrand Clauzel became commander of the Army of Portugal. After the battle, he remained in command for several months. He dealt with an army that was in ruin. Their morale was extremely low, discipline was almost non-existent, and their logistics were in shambles. Nevertheless, he sought to restore the army as an effective fighting force. Throughout his efforts to restore the army, Clauzel faced Spanish guerrillas and the British Army in an exhausted country. Most references to Clauzel during this time period are extremely limited. Due to the recent archival availability of Clauzel's personal papers, this thesis will take an important step in analyzing Clauzel's role and contribution to the French cause in the Peninsular War.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-4080
Format: Thesis

Title: The Cost of a Moral Army Masculinity and the Construction of a Respectable British Army 1850-1885.
Creator: Shipe, Jonathan Lee, Upchurch, Charles, Faulk, Barry J., Sinke, Suzanne M., Herrera, Robinson A., Grant, Jonathan A., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show moreShipe, Jonathan Lee, Upchurch, Charles, Faulk, Barry J., Sinke, Suzanne M., Herrera, Robinson A., Grant, Jonathan A., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: The Crimean War (1854-1856) followed quickly by the Indian Revolt (1857-1858) caused many civilians to become interested in the affairs of the army and the lives of soldiers. The increased visibility of the army created numerous calls for reform. Civilian moral reformers and government officials embarked on a project to create a more ‘respectable' army. This project was not teleological, nor was it voiced in a unified or always consistent manner. Furthermore, movements for moral reform...
Show moreThe Crimean War (1854-1856) followed quickly by the Indian Revolt (1857-1858) caused many civilians to become interested in the affairs of the army and the lives of soldiers. The increased visibility of the army created numerous calls for reform. Civilian moral reformers and government officials embarked on a project to create a more ‘respectable' army. This project was not teleological, nor was it voiced in a unified or always consistent manner. Furthermore, movements for moral reform consistently faced the realities of the financial constraints of the mid-Victorian Liberal State. The project was gendered, and it involved competing discourses of masculinity. This dissertation offers a thick description of key debates involving corporal punishment, soldiers' sexuality, the desirability/inability of soldiers to marry, and programs to assist their wives and children. It argues that one cannot understand the Victorian Army without considering what occurred in civilian society. These two worlds intersected and intertwined in numerous ways throughout the mid-nineteenth century.
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Date Issued: 2016
Identifier: FSU_2016SP_Shipe_fsu_0071E_13089
Format: Thesis

Title: Assessing the Impact of Website Domain on End-User Evaluations of Web Page Aesthetics Using an Immediate Aesthetic Perception Technique.
Creator: Doddington, Forrest Alan, Adams, Jonathan, Cortese, Juliann, Heald, Gary, School of Communication, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study investigated the 'immediate aesthetic impression' method of quantifying the perception of attractiveness of several website designs. This study replicates and expands an existing line of research that investigates a method of measuring end-user's "first impression" evaluations of web page attractiveness. Emphasis is placed on evaluating the potential influence of website domain on end-user perception of website visual aesthetics. A snowball technique was used to contact and enroll...
Show moreThis study investigated the 'immediate aesthetic impression' method of quantifying the perception of attractiveness of several website designs. This study replicates and expands an existing line of research that investigates a method of measuring end-user's "first impression" evaluations of web page attractiveness. Emphasis is placed on evaluating the potential influence of website domain on end-user perception of website visual aesthetics. A snowball technique was used to contact and enroll 184 participants. The participants were asked to evaluate 24 website screen images that represented four website domain categories (commerce, entertainment, government, and religious/non-profit). The results suggest that web domain can be, but is not always, a factor in the perception of website aesthetics. Comparing the average attractiveness rating between an experimental and a control group, websites in the Government domain showed a higher average attractiveness rating from the participants who were aware of the web domain they were viewing. The results also confirm prior findings and show that aesthetic perceptions are formed very quickly and held largely consistent upon repeated exposure to the same website screen image. Response latency continues to show promise as an inherent, objective confirmatory variable, with some limitations on proper experimental design when gathering latency data. This study provides further evidence supporting the repeatability and generalizability of the 'immediate aesthetic perception' measurement method and new findings about the relationship between web domain and perceived website aesthetics.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0435
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: Running over Unknown Rough Terrain with a One-Legged Planar Robot.
Creator: Andrews, Benjamin, Clark, Jonathan, Collins, Emmanuel, Oates, William, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The ability to traverse over unknown, rough terrain is an advantage that legged locomotion has over wheeled systems. However, due to the complexity of multi-legged systems, researchers in legged robotics have not been able to reproduce the agility found in the animal kingdom. In an effort to reduce this complexity, researchers have developed single-legged models, or templates, to gain insight into the fundamental dynamics of legged running. Inspired by studies of animal locomotion,...
Show moreThe ability to traverse over unknown, rough terrain is an advantage that legged locomotion has over wheeled systems. However, due to the complexity of multi-legged systems, researchers in legged robotics have not been able to reproduce the agility found in the animal kingdom. In an effort to reduce this complexity, researchers have developed single-legged models, or templates, to gain insight into the fundamental dynamics of legged running. Inspired by studies of animal locomotion, researchers have proposed numerous control strategies to achieve stable one-legged running over unknown, rough terrain. One such control strategy incorporates energy variations into the system during the stance phase by changing the force-free leg length as a sinusoidal function of time. In this research, a one legged planar robot capable of implementing this and other state-of-the-art control strategies was designed and built. Both simulated and experimental results are used to determine and compare the stability of the proposed controllers as the robot is subjected to unknown drop and raised step perturbations equal to 25% of the nominal leg length. This study illustrates the relative advantages of utilizing a minimal-sensing, active energy removal control scheme to stabilize running over rough terrain.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0213
Format: Thesis

Title: Embodiment, Performativity and Identity: Spatial and Temporal Processes Embedded within Improvisational Tribal Style Dance.
Creator: Conover, Georgia E., Steinberg, Philip, Leib, Jonathan, Warf, Barney, Department of Geography, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines temporal and spatial process that are reproduced and challenged through the hybrid cultural construction, Tribal Style Dance. It also examines how Tribal Style dancers use two embodied devices, signification and performativity, to challenge naturalized identity constructions of gender and sexuality that are layered onto "belly dancing" bodies. The thesis further argues for the academic significance of interrogations of uneven power relationships embedded in dance...
Show moreThis thesis examines temporal and spatial process that are reproduced and challenged through the hybrid cultural construction, Tribal Style Dance. It also examines how Tribal Style dancers use two embodied devices, signification and performativity, to challenge naturalized identity constructions of gender and sexuality that are layered onto "belly dancing" bodies. The thesis further argues for the academic significance of interrogations of uneven power relationships embedded in dance practices. The report begins by laying out the methods for engaging in a case study. The qualitative approach is meant to begin research into Tribal Style dance as a project and not just a mélange expression. Field research, participant observation and interviews with a selected case study group facilitate the exploration of Improvisational Tribal Style dance. A review of the available literature situates that troupe into temporal and spatial contexts. The thesis then examines the available literature, beginning with an explanation of culture and how culture can be used to reify hegemonic constructions. Culture is examined as a process, not a structure. Through production and reproduction, culture provides a structure and is the result of social actions. Globalizing processes are next examined, from two angles: one, as creating new vehicles for information and cultural object sharing across boundaries; and two, as being necessarily situated within spatial contexts. Globalization, specifically, is allowing Tribal Style dancers to borrow elements from around the world. With these elements, dancers are able to juxtapose images from the Occident and the Orient, thus blurring lines that have been historically and politically constructed between the two. The borrowings are not random; the resulting hybrid, cultural ensemble then signifies resistance to Western hegemonic constructions. Tribal Style dancers use globally available material to create identities that locally deconstruct Orientalist notions of sexualized "belly dancing" bodies. They also create dancing bodies that do not conform to Western ideals for dancers. In so doing, Tribal Style dance has opened spaces for non-normativity and transgression against the fixity of tradition. This thesis also makes an argument for deep interrogations of dance. The historic, Western mind/body separation has led to a devaluation of dance as a physical, but not rational, expression. Postmodernist inquiries into dance practices reveal this to be a social construction. Dance is examined as a power-laden discourse, one that is explicitly gendered and, in the case of "belly dance," sexualized.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3433
Format: Thesis

Title: Development of a Dynamic Bipedal Climbing and Multi-Modal Robotic Platform.
Creator: Dickson, James, Clark, Jonathan, Taira, Kunihiko, Hollis, Patrick, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Animals often exhibit the ability to operate in and transition between multiple modes of locomotion efficiently and elegantly. On the other hand, robotic platforms have typically focused on a single mode of locomotion. This thesis presents the conceptual development, design, and verification of a robotic platform capable of locomotion in scansorial and aerial regimes based on biological analogs. A review of related work is conducted on animals, previous climbing platforms, and multi-modal...
Show moreAnimals often exhibit the ability to operate in and transition between multiple modes of locomotion efficiently and elegantly. On the other hand, robotic platforms have typically focused on a single mode of locomotion. This thesis presents the conceptual development, design, and verification of a robotic platform capable of locomotion in scansorial and aerial regimes based on biological analogs. A review of related work is conducted on animals, previous climbing platforms, and multi-modal robots. A 2D dynamics simulation is developed and the effect of sprawl angle simulated. The development of a miniature bipedal dynamic climbing platform is discussed and an experimental investigation on the effect of sprawl angle on dynamic climbing conducted. The platform design for a multi-modal climbing and gliding robot is presented and a discussion on the trade-offs for multi-modal locomotion presented. The multi-modal platform, ICAROS, is experimentally operated to verify the design specifications. The resulting ICAROS platform demonstrates climbing prepared vertical surfaces and transitioning to a glide path with performance characteristics comparable to its biological counterparts.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-4798
Format: Thesis

Title: Night Music from Another World.
Creator: Bellot, Jonathan, Baggott, Julianna, Winegardner, Mark, Roberts, Diane, Department of English, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This is a collection of eleven short stories submitted as a thesis project to Florida State University in spring, 2012. The stories, though varied, largely take place in the Caribbean (be the islands real or imagined composites of many islands), though "Follow" takes place in America and "The Princess Nemona Takes a Walk" is set both on a mysterious submersible and on the bottom of the ocean floor in an ocean that may or may not exist on Earth. The idea of parallel worlds or universes is...
Show moreThis is a collection of eleven short stories submitted as a thesis project to Florida State University in spring, 2012. The stories, though varied, largely take place in the Caribbean (be the islands real or imagined composites of many islands), though "Follow" takes place in America and "The Princess Nemona Takes a Walk" is set both on a mysterious submersible and on the bottom of the ocean floor in an ocean that may or may not exist on Earth. The idea of parallel worlds or universes is explored in many of the stories, most prominently in the final story, "Governorship," a historical piece that brings up the question of how the idea of these parallel worlds might affect readings of history. The collection is also a stylistic exploration in many ways, as certain stories, like "Viola and the Passing of the Ghost Train" (written almost entirely in one sentence) are stylistically significantly different others, like "Hyper Manicou plus Elliot Versus Destroyer of Universes." These stories examine, often indirectly, what, if any, meaning we can extract from life after having learnt, through centuries, that we are tinier and less remarkable in the cosmic scheme of things than we could have ever imagined.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-4715
Format: Thesis

Title: Design and Characterization of a Dielectric Elastomer Based Variable Stiffness Mechanism for Implementation onto a Dynamic Running Robot.
Creator: Newton, Jason, Clark, Jonathan, Oates, William, Hollis, Patrick, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Biological systems show a reliance upon their capability to adapt limb stiffness as a means to achieve dynamically similar locomotion over a wide range of terrains. The versatility of robotic platforms falls short in comparison to their biological counterparts. One possible method to enhance the performance of these systems is to integrate a variable stiffness mechanism into the locomotive structure to aid in their adaptability. To date, many variable stiffness mechanisms have been designed,...
Show moreBiological systems show a reliance upon their capability to adapt limb stiffness as a means to achieve dynamically similar locomotion over a wide range of terrains. The versatility of robotic platforms falls short in comparison to their biological counterparts. One possible method to enhance the performance of these systems is to integrate a variable stiffness mechanism into the locomotive structure to aid in their adaptability. To date, many variable stiffness mechanisms have been designed, but they have multiple drawbacks. The current mechanisms are typically too slow to achieve rapid adaptations during dynamic locomotion or too large for implementation onto smaller platforms. It is desirable to have a variable stiffness mechanism that is able to achieve a large reduction in stiffness in the minimal amount of time. This work focuses on the development process of a dielectric elastomer based variable stiffness mechanism as a replacement for traditional springs on a legged hexapedal robot. A simulation is developed assessing the stability benefits of an ideal variable stiffness mechanism actuated over the period of a single stride during dynamic locomotion. The design process is detailed and the characterization of the mechanism in terms of its magnitude for stiffness reduction, transient response to stimuli, and implementability is presented. The newly developed system shows up to an order of magnitude reduction in stiffness at an actuation frequency approximated at 10 Hz. The system is implemented onto an adapted version of the dynamic running robot, iSprawl, and its performance is characterized with respect to forward velocity. Reliability issues in the current manufacturing process pose a potential problem, but new methods are proposed to increase durability and repeatability of the mechanism. Finally, the next generation design for implementation onto a new platform is presented.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-9058
Format: Thesis

Title: High Speed Dynamic Climbing on Rough Exterior Surfaces.
Creator: Rivera, Peter, Clark, Jonathan, Hollis, Patrick, Oates, William, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Currently, few scansorial robots exist that are capable of operating on rough exterior surfaces. None of these platforms have, as of yet, been able to achieve high speed dynamic climbing on these surfaces. This thesis shows that through the use of compliant micro-spines, a miniature dynamic climber, BOB, is capable of climbing dynamically at high speed on rough exterior surfaces. A new manufacturing method for micro-spines is examined. The effects of micro-spine arrays onto a dynamic climber...
Show moreCurrently, few scansorial robots exist that are capable of operating on rough exterior surfaces. None of these platforms have, as of yet, been able to achieve high speed dynamic climbing on these surfaces. This thesis shows that through the use of compliant micro-spines, a miniature dynamic climber, BOB, is capable of climbing dynamically at high speed on rough exterior surfaces. A new manufacturing method for micro-spines is examined. The effects of micro-spine arrays onto a dynamic climber are examined and how the micro-spines affect compliance, roll, and yaw. Methods to mitigate the effects of these dynamic motions are also examined and presented.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-9078
Format: Thesis

Title: Angels or Monsters?: Violent Crimes and Violent Children in Mexico City, 1927-1932.
Creator: Weber, Jonathan, Herrera, Robinson, Anderson, Rodney, Upchurch, Charles, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Based upon archival sources located in Mexico, this thesis represents a focused attempt at analyzing the factors affecting the punishment of juvenile offenders in late 1920s and early 1930s Mexico City. I argue that different crimes, homicide, prostitution, and rape, merited punishments that were prescribed to uniquely fit a suspect based on elite views of what represented the model family, education, and sexual behavior. The elite views were represented by state officials in the Tribunal...
Show moreBased upon archival sources located in Mexico, this thesis represents a focused attempt at analyzing the factors affecting the punishment of juvenile offenders in late 1920s and early 1930s Mexico City. I argue that different crimes, homicide, prostitution, and rape, merited punishments that were prescribed to uniquely fit a suspect based on elite views of what represented the model family, education, and sexual behavior. The elite views were represented by state officials in the Tribunal para Menores, a court established in January 1927, to specifically deal with minors, legally defined as anyone under the age of 18. Prior to the establishment of the Tribunal para Menores, minors were adjudicated in adult courts and placed in adult correctional facilities. However, the Tribunal represented the first attempt in Mexico City to separate child from adult. Correctional schools were established that solely housed minors and in most cases, prison sentences alongside adults were no longer acceptable. Instead, minors were placed in correctional schools where the ultimate goal was rehabilitation so minors could re-enter society as productive members of the nation.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-1226
Format: Thesis

Title: A Model of Prediction of Voter Approval for the Expansion of a Greenways System in Leon County, Florida.
Creator: Baughman, Katherine A., Leib, Jonathan, Kodras, Janet, Winsberg, Morton, Department of Geography, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the level of public support for the development of a greenway system in Leon County, Florida. The data for the study was acquired through a mail survey (N=390) to a randomly sampled selection of Leon County, Florida registered voters. The results of the survey were interpreted using logistic regression. In addition, the analysis determines survey respondents' perceived level of access to existing Leon County trails. The analysis reveals that gender, age, education, length...
Show moreThis thesis examines the level of public support for the development of a greenway system in Leon County, Florida. The data for the study was acquired through a mail survey (N=390) to a randomly sampled selection of Leon County, Florida registered voters. The results of the survey were interpreted using logistic regression. In addition, the analysis determines survey respondents' perceived level of access to existing Leon County trails. The analysis reveals that gender, age, education, length of time at current residence, renting versus owning property, and political ideology are significant in predicting voter approval of the Leon County greenway system and the use of public funds for its further development. The findings suggest the utility of a prediction model for other communities facing ballot measures to fund park, open space, and trail development.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-1136
Format: Thesis

Title: "This Ain't Gringoland": The Salvadoran Civil War in U.S. Popular Film.
Creator: Grandage, Jonathan Herbert, Herrera, Robinson, Childs, Matthew, Friedman, Max, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the portrayal of the Salvadoran Civil War in two popular U.S. films, Salvador (1986) and Romero (1989). Using a variety of sources as well as the films, this thesis is a cultural study of the images and words used by the filmmakers to render El Salvador recognizable to American audiences. The study focuses on both the ideology of the filmmakers as well as the development of historical characterizations in the films. The findings of this study demonstrate the role of...
Show moreThis thesis examines the portrayal of the Salvadoran Civil War in two popular U.S. films, Salvador (1986) and Romero (1989). Using a variety of sources as well as the films, this thesis is a cultural study of the images and words used by the filmmakers to render El Salvador recognizable to American audiences. The study focuses on both the ideology of the filmmakers as well as the development of historical characterizations in the films. The findings of this study demonstrate the role of individual bias in representing foreign others as well as the ways in which perpetual stereotypes of Latin America are employed in American cinema. This study, in addition to demonstrating the historicity of the films herein discussed, also situates the portrayal of historical events within the larger context of the Cold War and the Salvadoran Civil War.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-4051
Format: Thesis

Title: The Pursuit of Equality the Continuation of Colonialism in Vietnam.
Creator: Boucher, Robert Arthur, Grant, Jonathan A., Blaufarb, Rafe, Özok-Gündoğan, Nilay, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract/Description: Much of the scholarship on the colonial sphere remains focused on the ways that subalterns subverted colonial power and discourse, however little focus has centered on the way that colonized at times reified and perpetuated the ideas of the civilizing mission. In the case of Vietnam, over the course of approximately four decades Vietnamese intellectuals quickly swung from seeing the French as barbarians to a dynamic, modern power that should be learned from. In the process, modernization and...
Show moreMuch of the scholarship on the colonial sphere remains focused on the ways that subalterns subverted colonial power and discourse, however little focus has centered on the way that colonized at times reified and perpetuated the ideas of the civilizing mission. In the case of Vietnam, over the course of approximately four decades Vietnamese intellectuals quickly swung from seeing the French as barbarians to a dynamic, modern power that should be learned from. In the process, modernization and development came to be synonymous with everything from the West while tradition was invented as the old teachings. Importantly, while independence was achieved after much bloodshed and effort, the new Vietnamese state failed in reality to extricate itself from the grasp of European universalist ideas born out of the French Revolution. From efforts to open “New Learning” schools to demands of equality to French citizens and access to basic rights, the Vietnamese vision of a New Vietnam slowly became constrained to the path of the international community of nation-states. Ho Chi Minh would declare independence in the name of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness rather than the loss of the Mandate of Heaven. As such, this paper traces the variety of factors that influenced the manifold nature of colonialism and how rather than existing in a post-colonial world, the ideas of the mission civilisatrice have been continued by the powers which rebelled against it.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Boucher_fsu_0071N_15209
Format: Thesis

Title: Stuck in Traffic: The Wehrmacht's Failure in Urban Russia.
Creator: Sinisi, Scott T., Grant, Jonathan A., Williamson, George S., Creswell, Michael, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This paper traces an emergent pattern of critical delays imposed on the German method of warfare known as blitzkrieg by forced engagement in urban combat throughout the campaigns in Poland, France and the Low Countries, and finally the Soviet Union.
Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Sinisi_fsu_0071N_14954
Format: Thesis

Title: Nucleosome Fragility and Resistance: An Additional Dimension of Chromatin Structure Information in Eukaryotic Genomes.
Creator: Vera, Daniel, Bass, Hank W., Dennis, Jonathan H. (Jonathan Hancock), Zhang, Jinfeng, Chadwick, Brian P., Gilbert, David M., Florida State University, College of Arts and...
Show moreVera, Daniel, Bass, Hank W., Dennis, Jonathan H. (Jonathan Hancock), Zhang, Jinfeng, Chadwick, Brian P., Gilbert, David M., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biological Science
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Abstract/Description: The DNA in the eukaryotic genome is wrapped in 147--bp segments around an octamer of histone proteins to form the fundamental subunit of chromatin, the nucleosome. Nucleosomes regulate the access of proteins to DNA, thus regulating important DNA-templated events such as transcription, translation, recombination, and repair. In order to characterize the chromatin landscape in maize, we mapped nucleosome positions using micrococcal nuclease (MNase) to enrich for nucleosomal DNA. We mapped...
Show moreThe DNA in the eukaryotic genome is wrapped in 147--bp segments around an octamer of histone proteins to form the fundamental subunit of chromatin, the nucleosome. Nucleosomes regulate the access of proteins to DNA, thus regulating important DNA-templated events such as transcription, translation, recombination, and repair. In order to characterize the chromatin landscape in maize, we mapped nucleosome positions using micrococcal nuclease (MNase) to enrich for nucleosomal DNA. We mapped nucleosomes under a variety of experimental conditions and in different tissues. We identified an unexpected, nonuniform source of variation which we traced to the degree to which chromatin is digested with MNase. We exploited this property to identify nucleosomes in the maize genome that possessed unique biochemical traits as being hypersensitive or hyper-resistant to MNase digestion. These regions were associated with important biological processes, including gene expression levels, transcription-factor binding, and highly-conserved noncoding sequences. In addition, we found that these nucleosomes displayed tissue specificity, implicating this special type of chromatin feature in regulating gene expression under different cell physiologies. We extended this work to the human genome and made similar discoveries: hypersensitive nucleosomes were associated with gene expression levels and were enriched in important regulatory elements. We also found hyper-resistant nucleosomes to be highly-associated with paused RNA polymerase II, implicating these nucleosomes in regulating transcriptional elongation. Thus, our approach to chromatin profiling uncovers novel biochemical states of multicellular organisms that are likely important for transcription, differentiation, and cellular responses.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-9263
Format: Thesis

Title: Computational Models and Algorithms for Nucleosome Positioning.
Creator: Zhang, Yu, Liu, Xiuwen, Bass, Hank W., Dennis, Jonathan H. (Jonathan Hancock), Kumar, Piyush, Tyson, Gary Scott, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show moreZhang, Yu, Liu, Xiuwen, Bass, Hank W., Dennis, Jonathan H. (Jonathan Hancock), Kumar, Piyush, Tyson, Gary Scott, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Computer Science
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Abstract/Description: The dissertation research is focused on improving performance on genome wide nucleosome positioning. Nucleosome is the basic structural unit of DNA in eukaryotic cells. As nucleosomes limit the accessibility of the wrapped DNA to transcription factors and other DNA-binding proteins, their positions play an essential role in regulations of gene activities. Experiments have indicated that DNA sequence strongly influences nucleosome positioning by enhancing or reducing their binding ability to...
Show moreThe dissertation research is focused on improving performance on genome wide nucleosome positioning. Nucleosome is the basic structural unit of DNA in eukaryotic cells. As nucleosomes limit the accessibility of the wrapped DNA to transcription factors and other DNA-binding proteins, their positions play an essential role in regulations of gene activities. Experiments have indicated that DNA sequence strongly influences nucleosome positioning by enhancing or reducing their binding ability to nucleosomes, therefore providing an intrinsic cell regulatory mechanism. While some sequence features are known to be nucleosome forming or nucleosome inhibiting, however, existing models have limited accuracy in predicting quantitatively nucleosomes occupancy (i.e., statistical nucleosome positioning) based on DNA sequence. The study developed several algorithms to produce better features as well as more accuracy models to predict nucleosome positioning. It first proposed several models to classify a given DNA sequence as nucleosome forming sequence or nucleosome inhibiting sequence. Then, it turns the focus to predict the probability that a basepair is covered by any nucleosome. Moreover, based on a one basepair dataset, it found an intrinsic pattern which can be used to develop a single base pair nucleosome localization algorithm. Experimental results have shown the proposed methods are comparable or better than all existing solutions.
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Date Issued: 2014
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-9275
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: 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: Investment and Local Economic Development: A Study of Realized Investment in Serbian Municipalities.
Creator: Anguelov, Lachezar G., Grant, Jonathan, Eger, Robert, deHaven-Smith, Lance, Program in International Affairs, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Serbia occupies a central position in Southeast Europe in a geographical as well as political sense and events and developments within its borders throughout the last century have had a major effect on neighboring nations. Numerous proposed initiatives in the region seek to strengthen the institutional framework for local governance, and to build its capacities and abilities to foster a competitive and attractive business environment for investors. Municipal-focused studies are scarce at best...
Show moreSerbia occupies a central position in Southeast Europe in a geographical as well as political sense and events and developments within its borders throughout the last century have had a major effect on neighboring nations. Numerous proposed initiatives in the region seek to strengthen the institutional framework for local governance, and to build its capacities and abilities to foster a competitive and attractive business environment for investors. Municipal-focused studies are scarce at best and the present research seeks to place an emphasis on the ability of local governments to attract investment and capital from abroad: why are certain municipalities more success in amassing imported investment? This research provides an initial descriptive analysis of municipal success by proposing the disaggregation of the state into local governing units to be further analyzed using economic growth determinants.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0219
Format: Thesis

Title: Cultures and Conflict: The Waning of the Clash of Civilizations.
Creator: Ellis, Glynn, Hensel, Paul, Grant, Jonathan, Smith, Dale, Souva, Mark, Carsey, Tom, Department of Political Science, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: In this study I investigate an array of aspects concerning cultural conflict. I use Samuel Huntington's civilizations, from his theory of a Clash of Civilizations (1993), as a means of identifying different cultures. Taking advantage of an expanded data set that was not available to Huntington and most of his critics, I not only review his theory but advance well beyond it, exploring additional matters such as the distribution of cultural conflict, its intensities, underlying issues, and...
Show moreIn this study I investigate an array of aspects concerning cultural conflict. I use Samuel Huntington's civilizations, from his theory of a Clash of Civilizations (1993), as a means of identifying different cultures. Taking advantage of an expanded data set that was not available to Huntington and most of his critics, I not only review his theory but advance well beyond it, exploring additional matters such as the distribution of cultural conflict, its intensities, underlying issues, and resolution techniques. I find support for a number of arguments including the following: different-civilization conflicts are more prevalent than those between same-civilization states, even though in general there is a higher likelihood of same-civilization rather than different-civilization conflict; this cross-cultural militarized conflict does not permeate all civilizations at the international level, but rather is principally limited to only a few; the cultures most prone to inter-cultural conflict are Islam and the West, while the Sinics (Chinese) are among the least prone; and while cultural differences play a role in this type of conflict, such issues are not among those that most frequently lead to serious conflict or war. I also find, though contrary to expectations, that cross-cultural dyads seek peaceful solutions to their differences more often than same-culture dyads, they have about the same success rate, and neither third party assistance nor bilateral negotiating techniques present a particular advantage for resolving different-culture conflict.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0569
Format: Thesis

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: 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

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