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Title: How Accurate Is Wikipedia?.
Creator: Chianese, Samantha L., History
Abstract/Description: The accuracy of Wikipedia is often debated, due to the fact that anyone is allowed to edit the website's articles. The purpose of this project is to analyze how various events from the Second World War, specifically those events related to and orchestrated by Nazi Germany, are explained on the English version of Wikipedia, and to see if they are similarly described on the corresponding pages of other languages' versions of the site. This allows for comparison of how certain aspects of history...
Show moreThe accuracy of Wikipedia is often debated, due to the fact that anyone is allowed to edit the website's articles. The purpose of this project is to analyze how various events from the Second World War, specifically those events related to and orchestrated by Nazi Germany, are explained on the English version of Wikipedia, and to see if they are similarly described on the corresponding pages of other languages' versions of the site. This allows for comparison of how certain aspects of history are perceived by different countries, and can also be used as a means to research the accuracy with which historical events are depicted. This is done by analyzing the articles on a variety of levels: information given, word count, number of references and sources, the articles' tones, the edit histories (specifically the parts of the articles which are most often revised), and how word choices and descriptions differ between articles. After examining Wikipedia, research is done wherein academic sources written in the non-English target languages are found and studied. These sources are analyzed using similar methods to the above, and are additionally used as a means to gather information on topics that Wikipedia does not thoroughly cover.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_undergradsymposium2015-0002
Format: Citation

Title: Italian Occupation of Slovenia and the Aftermath of World War II.
Creator: Nikolic, Ljubica, History
Abstract/Description: Slovenia and the Province of Ljubljana were occupied by Fascist Italy during World War II. Through extensive literature reviews, the project identifies a specific report" Report of the High Commissioner for the Province of Ljubljana" which outlined the Italian goals for the region, such as deportation of the population. I have also examined Italy in the aftermath of World War II. Specifically, I have noted the failure of the international community to try Italian war criminals after the end...
Show moreSlovenia and the Province of Ljubljana were occupied by Fascist Italy during World War II. Through extensive literature reviews, the project identifies a specific report" Report of the High Commissioner for the Province of Ljubljana" which outlined the Italian goals for the region, such as deportation of the population. I have also examined Italy in the aftermath of World War II. Specifically, I have noted the failure of the international community to try Italian war criminals after the end of the war" focusing on Britain's role in trying Italian criminals. In addition, I have explored the Italian mentality of Brava Gente and its role in excusing Italian war crimes during World War II.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_migr_undergradsymposium2015-0010
Format: Citation

Title: The Polish government and ethnic minorities: the effects of nationalism during the inter-war period.
Creator: Ricke, Amber Rose
Date Issued: 2005-08-03
Identifier: 160387, FSDT160387, fsu:18887
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: How the Culture of Eastern Europe Affected the Rise and Development of communism.
Creator: Hazzard, Karissa, History
Abstract/Description: As a philosophy for the masses, Karl Marx, combined the essential components of both socialism and nationalism to create an ideology that would aid in shaping the latter part of the Twentieth Century: Communism. Many facets of a country's political culture combine to compose the overall environment of a country. The manipulation of these components is how communists were able to develop and dominant within these countries. There are three countries that represent the extreme spectrum of the...
Show moreAs a philosophy for the masses, Karl Marx, combined the essential components of both socialism and nationalism to create an ideology that would aid in shaping the latter part of the Twentieth Century: Communism. Many facets of a country's political culture combine to compose the overall environment of a country. The manipulation of these components is how communists were able to develop and dominant within these countries. There are three countries that represent the extreme spectrum of the communist takeover: Bulgaria, with its historic ties to Russia, Poland, with Russia as its traditional adversary, and Yugoslavia, which developed communism completely independent of Russia and did not bend to Moscow's rule. While communism too different paths to get established, each nation felt a desire for change and a feeling of despair and failure with Western political ideology. These sentiments were evident in the different sectors of the culture during the development, establishment, and domination of the communist party. The elements most important for communist rule are the tensions between the majority ethnicity and the multiplicity of ethnic minorities, the focus of individuality versus communalism and the economic status of the country at the end of WWII versus the initial performance of the communist governments. Other factors include the development, actions, and platform of the communist party, the relationship of the communist party with the Soviet Union, and the use of the military in the communist takeover. although these differed in each country, the outcome was the same by 1948: communist rule.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0015
Format: Thesis

Title: I, as a Republican printer: Benjamin Franklin, printing, and the mission to France, 1776-1785.
Creator: Huffman, John M.
Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: 160717, FSDT160717, fsu:19041
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Sorting out the callaloo: the effect of East Indian identureship on race relations in the former British Caribbean.
Creator: Phillips, Anne Marie
Date Issued: 2007-02-01
Identifier: 160348, FSDT160348, fsu:18869
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The role of non-professional soccer clubs and leagues on Latin American immigrants in the United States.
Creator: Pratt, Jennifer C.
Date Issued: 2005-07-28
Identifier: 160369, FSDT160369, fsu:18878
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Along freedom’s road: Ruth Willis Perry and the discourse of civil rights.
Creator: Cray, Adam F.
Date Issued: 2005-07-26
Identifier: 160602, FSDT160602, fsu:18990
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Bolshevik Party on Women's Rights and Equality 1917-1920.
Creator: Beck, Elizabeth, History
Abstract/Description: This thesis deals with the opinions and views regarding women's rights and equality by the Bolshevik Party in Russia during the period of 1917 to 1920. This study examines the Bolshevik party's rhetoric involving gender issues, primarily that of women, and the proposed methods of creating a better environment for women. This work relies heavily on Vladimir Lenin and Alexandra Kollontai's speeches and writings which express their views on women's equality and the rights of women. It also...
Show moreThis thesis deals with the opinions and views regarding women's rights and equality by the Bolshevik Party in Russia during the period of 1917 to 1920. This study examines the Bolshevik party's rhetoric involving gender issues, primarily that of women, and the proposed methods of creating a better environment for women. This work relies heavily on Vladimir Lenin and Alexandra Kollontai's speeches and writings which express their views on women's equality and the rights of women. It also relies on the writing of Louise Bryant, a woman from the United States who was present during the Bolshevik revolution for the initial six months, as she expresses her own opinions on the work of the Bolshevik party regarding women's rights. This thesis addresses the initial steps made by the Bolshevik party towards liberating women and creating gender equality during 1917-1920, but primarily deals with the ideas expressed regarding the issue.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0004
Format: Thesis

Title: Legislating the invisible hand: the Port of London and the Atlantic World, 1750-1815.
Creator: Seeber, Kevin
Date Issued: 2006-05-23
Identifier: 160411, FSDT160411, fsu:18898
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: A tale of two cities: an analysis of factors for Genoese and Venetian expansion during the crusading era, as seen in their naval technology and tradition.
Creator: Zwilling, Andrew
Date Issued: 2007-02-01
Identifier: 160523, FSDT160523, fsu:18950
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The Judenrate: Jewish councils in the ghettos during the Holocaust.
Creator: Buck, Laura A.
Date Issued: 2005-06-24
Identifier: 160554, FSDT160554, fsu:18966
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Asserting indigenous nationalism: Bolivia and the struggle for self-determination.
Creator: Weiss, Olivia V.
Date Issued: 2006-05-24
Identifier: 160495, FSDT160495, fsu:18938
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: The decline of African-American participation in Major League Baseball.
Creator: Barrow, Howard J
Date Issued: 2006-04-21
Identifier: 160314, FSDT160314, fsu:18852
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Charles IV: Religious Propaganda and Imperial Expansion.
Creator: Crowley, Stephanie, Art History
Abstract/Description: The Bohemian Charles IV (1316 – 1378) was crowned King of Bohemia in 1347, King of the Romans in 1349, and Holy Roman Emperor in 1355. At the time of his death, he had successfully expanded the borders of the Holy Roman Empire to include the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Kingdom of Burgundy, the Duchy of Pomerania, and he had himself crowned King of Lombardy. The artwork Charles IV commissioned played a major legitimizing role in this imperial expansion. My study investigates the artistic program...
Show moreThe Bohemian Charles IV (1316 – 1378) was crowned King of Bohemia in 1347, King of the Romans in 1349, and Holy Roman Emperor in 1355. At the time of his death, he had successfully expanded the borders of the Holy Roman Empire to include the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Kingdom of Burgundy, the Duchy of Pomerania, and he had himself crowned King of Lombardy. The artwork Charles IV commissioned played a major legitimizing role in this imperial expansion. My study investigates the artistic program of Charles IV in relation to his active promotion of religious cults devoted to three carefully selected saints; St. Wenceslas, St. Charlemagne, and St. Sigismund. I argue that the emperor employed a widespread and calculated artistic program to lay the foundations for his dynasty by creating strong visual ties between himself, his heirs, and the aforementioned royal saints while simultaneously promoting local devotion to those saints. In a detailed examination of the Crowned Reliquaries of Charles IV, the Holy Cross Chapel, and the Madonna of John Očko of Vlašim, I will prove the effectiveness of the emperor's expansive artistic campaign in shaping the way he was perceived in contemporary society, despite his contested ascent to the Bohemian and imperial thrones. I argue that the widespread artistic program of Charles IV was ultimately successful because, by the end of his rule, propagandistic themes common to artwork commissioned by the emperor were present in privately commissioned artwork as well.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0008
Format: Thesis

Title: Symbiosis: the relationship that led to Euthanasia Aktion T4 and medical experimentation on human subjects.
Creator: Jonczak, Hilary Kay
Date Issued: 2005-08-02
Identifier: 160721, FSDT160721, fsu:19043
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Rescue the perishing: reform activity of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and an examination of the Magdalene Union of North Tampa, Florida, 1905-1922.
Creator: Kaufmann, Caroline E.
Date Issued: 2006-11-14
Identifier: 160727, FSDT160727, fsu:19046
Format: Document (PDF)

Title: Handwritten note about Mr. A.B. Clark.
Identifier: FSU_MSS0204_B03_F05_23
Format: Image (JPEG2000)

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

Title: Studies in Sefer Yosippon: The Reception of Josephus in Medieval Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic Literature.
Creator: Binyam, Yonatan, Levenson, David B., Garretson, Peter P., Goff, Matthew J., Kelley, Nicole, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religion
Abstract/Description: In this dissertation I analyze the reception of Josephus in Ethiopia by way of the Hebrew Sefer Yosippon, its Latin sources, and its subsequent Arabic translations. I provide the first English translations and comparative analysis of selected passages from the Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic texts that transmit Josephus’s Jewish War. The first part of this project provides an introduction to four texts that play important roles in the transmission of Josephus’s Jewish War from first...
Show moreIn this dissertation I analyze the reception of Josephus in Ethiopia by way of the Hebrew Sefer Yosippon, its Latin sources, and its subsequent Arabic translations. I provide the first English translations and comparative analysis of selected passages from the Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, and Ethiopic texts that transmit Josephus’s Jewish War. The first part of this project provides an introduction to four texts that play important roles in the transmission of Josephus’s Jewish War from first-century Rome to fourteenth-century Ethiopia: the fourth-century Latin De Excidio Hierosolymitano, the tenth-century Hebrew Sefer Yosippon, the twelfth-century Arabic Kitāb akhbār al-yahūd, and the fourteenth-century Ethiopic Zena Ayhud. After discussing the critical issues related to these texts, the second part of the dissertation presents a detailed comparison of the receptions of the famous story of Maria found Josephus’s account of the siege of Jerusalem. I pay close attention to the redactional changes made by the author of each text and note the ideological, cultural, rhetorical, and historical factors that lie behind the various editorial activities. Ultimately my research seeks to contribute to our understanding of the way in which non-western cultures receive the historiographical traditions of the classical period. In doing so, it will highlight the uniqueness of understudied literary and historiographical traditions that flourished in the medieval period.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_SUMMER2017_Binyam_fsu_0071E_14085
Format: Thesis

Title: Competing Memories: Tallahassee's Civil War Commemorations, Exhibits, and Celebrations.
Creator: Berumen, Esther H., Koslow, Jennifer, Jones, Maxine D., Jones, James P., Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study is to explore the forms in which the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation are commemorated, celebrated, and remembered in Tallahassee. It will further investigate how or if these events within Tallahassee present a clear, accurate and universal recollection of the city's participation in the Civil War. Included in this discussion are the competing official and vernacular memories present in the Tallahassee community. This work will also assist in identifying...
Show moreThe purpose of this study is to explore the forms in which the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation are commemorated, celebrated, and remembered in Tallahassee. It will further investigate how or if these events within Tallahassee present a clear, accurate and universal recollection of the city's participation in the Civil War. Included in this discussion are the competing official and vernacular memories present in the Tallahassee community. This work will also assist in identifying the purpose of these public types of observances, the function they serve in society, and the extent to which we allow private memory to dictate how and what we commemorate. It will discuss these issues through an assessment of a forthcoming exhibit at the National Archives and Records Administration, and current exhibits located at the Museum of Florida History, and the Old Capitol Museum, each of which focus on different aspects of the Civil War. An evaluation of the annual celebrations held at The Walker-Ford Community Center and the Knott House museum will further contribute to the discussion of current competing memories in Tallahassee.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-1390
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: The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary: The Political Career of Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron, Representative on Mission and Conventionnel, 1754-1802.
Creator: Greene, Karen L., Horward, Donald D., O'Sullivan, Patrick, Grant, Jonathan, Garretson, Peter P., Stoltzfus, Nathan, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This dissertation examines the Revolutionary career of Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron (1754-1802). Fréron was born the son of Élie-Catherine Fréron, was a prominent author and literary critic who championed the traditional institutions of France against the philosophes. But, with the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, Fréron made a complete break with his father's principles. He joined the Jacobin Club, embraced republicanism, and became a well-known, radical journalist through his...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the Revolutionary career of Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron (1754-1802). Fréron was born the son of Élie-Catherine Fréron, was a prominent author and literary critic who championed the traditional institutions of France against the philosophes. But, with the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, Fréron made a complete break with his father's principles. He joined the Jacobin Club, embraced republicanism, and became a well-known, radical journalist through his notorious newspaper L'Orateur du Peuple. Along with his work as a journalist, Fréron pursued a political career. In 1792 he was elected to the National Convention and was subsequently sent as a representative on mission to the departments of southeast France (1793-94). It was here that Fréron gained a notorious reputation as a ruthless Terrorist, especially as a result of his activities in the cities of Marseilles and Toulon. Fréron later played a leading role in the coup of 9 Thermidor (27-28 July 1794) that toppled Robespierre's government and began the process to dismantle the Terror. During the following chaotic period of the Thermidorian Reaction, Fréron sought to disassociate himself from his past activities as a Jacobin and agent of the Terror. But, public knowledge of Fréron's past activities as a representative and participant in the Terror as well as his support and encouragement of violence after Thermidor ultimately brought him criticism and condemnation. His political career was irrevocably damaged. In the final days of the National Convention, Fréron obtained one last assignment as a representative on mission to southeast France. On this mission Fréron showed great moderation and sagacity in the implementation of his duties, but found it impossible to cleanse his tarnished reputation or silence his political opponents. As a result, the last seven years of Fréron's public and private life were plagued with disappointment and failure. Fréron drifted, debt-ridden, able only to obtain insignificant employment. In 1802 he was appointed to a position as sous-préfet to the French colony of Saint-Domingue (Haiti). But this mission was to be his last. He contracted yellow fever, just weeks after his arrival there, and died alone and forgotten.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3997
Format: Thesis

Title: The Agrarian Policy of the Social Revolutionary Party and Its Impact on the Development of the Russian Peasantry into a Politicized Social Class, 1870-1907.
Creator: Howell, Jessica H., Grant, Jonathan, Launer, Michael K., Wynot, Edward, Creswell, Michael, Jones, Maxine, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: In the Russian Empire, where so many of its inhabitants were of the peasant class in the 19th and 20th centuries, it is interesting that despite their large numbers, they did not engage themselves regularly in political matters. While some parties attempted to include the peasantry in the years 1902-1907, many were unable to effectively incorporate the peasants within the organizational structure of the party. Peasants, despite their discontent with their circumstances, were unwilling to join...
Show moreIn the Russian Empire, where so many of its inhabitants were of the peasant class in the 19th and 20th centuries, it is interesting that despite their large numbers, they did not engage themselves regularly in political matters. While some parties attempted to include the peasantry in the years 1902-1907, many were unable to effectively incorporate the peasants within the organizational structure of the party. Peasants, despite their discontent with their circumstances, were unwilling to join organized political parties in the revolutionary movement that was present in Russia during these years. Instead, the peasants demonstrated their ability to become a contender in the realm of politics apart from the Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR), the one most active among the countryside. There is evidence that both the PSR and the peasants were striving to change the social and political scene in Russia. Although the PSR hoped that the peasants would unite in its efforts to bring forth a revolution to Russia, the peasants acted alone, seeking different concessions from the government. In the end, the peasants are often remembered for their uprisings and revolts directed at their landlords, but it is because of these actions that many parties, and the government, began to rethink the agrarian question. By 1902, the peasants were a political force, regardless of the ultimate outcome of their actions.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-7159
Format: Thesis

Title: "Malta Is a Magnificent Story": Malta's Symbolic Role in the Second World War.
Creator: Debono, Megan, Jones, James P., Creswell, Michael, Koslow, Jennifer, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines Malta's symbolic role in the Second World War. Then a Britishheld colony, the archipelago fell under heavy Axis bombardment from mid 1940 – early 1943. Incessant Italian and German air raids plagued the islands and the Maltese, making Malta the most heavily bombed area of the entire war. In June 1940, just weeks before the first attack, London's War Cabinet deemed the isles indefensible and withdrew their forces. Despite this initial abandonment, the British permanently...
Show moreThis thesis examines Malta's symbolic role in the Second World War. Then a Britishheld colony, the archipelago fell under heavy Axis bombardment from mid 1940 – early 1943. Incessant Italian and German air raids plagued the islands and the Maltese, making Malta the most heavily bombed area of the entire war. In June 1940, just weeks before the first attack, London's War Cabinet deemed the isles indefensible and withdrew their forces. Despite this initial abandonment, the British permanently returned to their colony just a few months later and expended a considerable amount of manpower and materiel in its defense. Tactical reasons alone cannot explain this drastic reversal in British policy. The missing explanation lies with Malta's role in British propaganda. Whether by choice or ignorance, this crucial aspect of Malta's wartime purpose is absent from the historiography. Through an examination of official papers and popular periodicals, this thesis aims to correct this imbalance. To provide proper context, the work first analyzes Anglo- Maltese relations and the empire's position in the latter half of the 1930s. The subsequent chapters analyze the media's role in the War Cabinet's return, and how Prime Minister Winston Churchill used the gallant tale of Malta to bolster morale at home and elicit the cooperation of the United States. Paired with strategic objectives around the Mediterranean basin, these propagandistic concerns ensured Britain's continued defense of the archipelago. Through the war's end, Malta served as both a physical and ideological bastion for the British Empire.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-4665
Format: Thesis

Title: Making Internationalism Personal: The Great Depression and America's Advocates for International Cooperation, 1929-1936.
Creator: Goodman, Joshua L., Creswell, Michael, Jones, James P., Upchurch, Charles, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Between the world wars, Wilsonian activists called for the United States to use its power, money, and influence to help neutralize the volatile atmosphere in Europe and Asia and foster a cooperative global community to prevent war and settle international disputes rationally. These 'internationalists' were mostly intellectuals and publicists associated with universities, prominent foundations, and non-profit organizations such as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Foreign...
Show moreBetween the world wars, Wilsonian activists called for the United States to use its power, money, and influence to help neutralize the volatile atmosphere in Europe and Asia and foster a cooperative global community to prevent war and settle international disputes rationally. These 'internationalists' were mostly intellectuals and publicists associated with universities, prominent foundations, and non-profit organizations such as the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Foreign Policy Association. While a number of historians either downplay the importance of this group in policymaking or label them as idealists detached from the mainstream beat of American public opinion in the interwar period, internationalists' activities during the Great Depression indicate that they were more alert to reality than some writers suggest. This thesis explores a three-part revolution in the internationalist movement in the United States, whereby Wilsonian activists confronted the economic downturn of the early 1930s as both a challenge and an opportunity. On the one hand, the hardships of the Great Depression turned most Americans toward nationalist solutions for the crisis designed to put 'America first,' at the expense of the internationalist worldview the Wilsonians were working to cultivate. Moreover, the organizations and individuals who supported this non-governmental movement were not immune from the Depression themselves, and over the course of the 1930s their funding began to wither. Despite these problems, internationalists also used the Depression as an opportunity to reform their movement to make it more relevant and palatable to a wider public. This revolution took place in three categories. First, Wilsonians dropped their traditional vague arguments in favor of international cooperation and substituted an unyielding attack on economic nationalism, which they believed had caused the Great Depression and could engulf the world in another general war if left unchecked. They also supplemented their existing tactics for educating public opinion with new initiatives designed to shine a spotlight on the problems of the Depression for the largest possible number of Americans. Whereas their earlier efforts had focused on university students and the elite, 1930s internationalists launched a real campaign to bring Wilsonianism to the everyday American. Finally, in light of the fiscal constraints of the economic downturn during this period, internationalists were forced to streamline their movement by prioritizing their work and pooling resources to support only the best and most promising avenues of action. What these intellectuals considered the most promising is indicative of the lessons the Depression taught them. Altogether, these changes demonstrate that Wilsonians are deserving of attention in the historiography of American foreign policy in the inter-war period, since they did make a concerted effort to shape popular opinion about America's place in a global community, and their activities confirm that they did far more than bat about ideas that had no connection to the dire realities of the Great Depression.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-7146
Format: Thesis

Title: The Politics of Protestantism and the French Revolution: Memory, Citizenship, and Church-State Relations, 1785-1802.
Creator: Banks, Bryan, Blaufarb, Rafe, McMahon, Darrin M., Williamson, George S., Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis discusses representations of Protestantism or as I term them the 'politics of Protestantism.' I focus on the ways that Protestant rhetoric pervaded the political writings of the French Revolution. Liberal, pro-toleration advocates like Malesherbes and Lafayette continued the work of previous thinkers in 1785 when they challenged Louis XVI to promote the Edict of 1787. They portrayed Protestants as 'French' and logical French citizens; however, in contrast, opponents to Protestant...
Show moreThis thesis discusses representations of Protestantism or as I term them the 'politics of Protestantism.' I focus on the ways that Protestant rhetoric pervaded the political writings of the French Revolution. Liberal, pro-toleration advocates like Malesherbes and Lafayette continued the work of previous thinkers in 1785 when they challenged Louis XVI to promote the Edict of 1787. They portrayed Protestants as 'French' and logical French citizens; however, in contrast, opponents to Protestant rights characterized Protestantism as inherently immoral, organized through conspiracy, and determined to reignite the violence of the Wars of Religion. In December 1789, Protestantism raised the question of citizenship without religious qualification. Discussions of Protestantism forced the deputies to reflect upon their own revolutionary mission. Jews, actors, and executioners entered the debate and were aligned with Protestants. Culturally, Protestantism became a symbol of toleration for all groups ' both liberals and conservatives. The revolution instituted the 'right to return' for Protestant 'migr's. Not only could the ancestors of Protestant 'migr's return to France with full citizenship, but they could also regain some of their property if it resided in the King's registry. The French Revolution attracted Protestants to France and to its cause. After the Terror's deChristianization campaign attacked all faiths throughout France in 1794, the Directory became a secular State; however, Theophilanthropy found sponsorship with several governmental officials. Chemin-Dupont's, the founder of this revolutionary faith, attributed its birth to the Protestant community of Paris. Theophilanthropic and Protestant ceremonies were similar in their disdain for traditional Catholic ceremonial pomp and garb. In this case, Protestantism raised questions about the function of spirituality. The Concordat of 1801 reinstated the Catholic Church, but utilized Protestantism to guarantee equal rights to all religions. Ultimately, the politics of Protestantism were used by both liberals and conservatives to discuss questions salient to citizenship and Church-State relations. Both sides framed their discussions through their memory or historical representations of French Protestantism.
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Date Issued: 2011
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-7092
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: 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: "The Way It Was": Race Relations and Integration in Citrus County, Florida.
Creator: Allen, Dennis Shawn, Jones, Maxine D., Koslow, Jennifer L., Montgomery, Maxine Lavon, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: In 1967, Citrus County integrated its school system prompted by the federal government mandate and loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The integration process occurred over18 months through two different plans, and it went smoothly with no protests or racial incidents. What caused the county, who actively ignored the Brown v. Board decision, to integrate easily? The answer is found in Citrus County's economic development. The county developed post Reconstruction with a series of...
Show moreIn 1967, Citrus County integrated its school system prompted by the federal government mandate and loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The integration process occurred over18 months through two different plans, and it went smoothly with no protests or racial incidents. What caused the county, who actively ignored the Brown v. Board decision, to integrate easily? The answer is found in Citrus County's economic development. The county developed post Reconstruction with a series of industries that brought in poor, black and white laborers. This prevented entrenched racial communities and caused both races to share similar working and living experiences. However, a soft racism occurred through economic gain and education. Blacks were not paid the same wages as whites, and their schools were not funded equally. Blacks were prevented from an opportunity of higher education because the county did not provide a high school until 1947, at the mandate of the state. Blacks made the most of the funding they had and produced college students at a higher rate than the white schools. Still, black did not achieve educational equality until the integration in 1967. By then the county was moving past the integration debate and onto providing a quality educational experience to a booming population.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-8523
Format: Thesis

Title: Empire of the Mind: Subscription Libraries, Literacy & Acculturation in the Colonies of the British Empire.
Creator: Coleman, Sterling Joseph, Upchurch, Charles, Wiegand, Wayne, Garretson, Peter, Grant, Jonathan, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: In his ground-breaking Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson declared that the census, map and museum shaped the manner in which the colony imagined its dominion, the nature of the colonized, the geography of the colony and the ancestral right of the colonizer to rule. The author's analysis not only highlighted the impact of print-culture within a colonial setting but also created an opportunity to explore how other information gathering institutions may have contributed to the social and...
Show moreIn his ground-breaking Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson declared that the census, map and museum shaped the manner in which the colony imagined its dominion, the nature of the colonized, the geography of the colony and the ancestral right of the colonizer to rule. The author's analysis not only highlighted the impact of print-culture within a colonial setting but also created an opportunity to explore how other information gathering institutions may have contributed to the social and cultural development of both the metropolis and the colony. This dissertation is designed to build upon Anderson's work through an analysis of the social and cultural roles subscription libraries played throughout the colonies of the British Empire. By analyzing British government documents, library annual reports and a variety of secondary sources, this study will assess the history, growth and development of subscription librarianship in the colonies of Jamaica, Malaysia and Nigeria as a microcosm for British-controlled areas of the Caribbean, Asia and Africa respectively. This dissertation will argue that colonial subscription library development was a key component of "Neo-Macaulayism" which advocated the cultural enfranchisement and intellectual development of the indigenous elite to maintain a fully functioning colonial government bureaucracy against the threats of disloyalty and illiteracy.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3564
Format: Thesis

Title: Early 19th Century U.S. Hurricanes: A GIS Tool and Climate Analysis.
Creator: Bossak, Brian H., Elsner, James B., Niu, Xufeng, Baker, E. Jay, Jacobson, R. Dan, Department of Geography, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Hurricane climate research is based on data spanning the last 100 years or so. To better understand rare but potentially catastrophic hurricane events it is helpful to have longer records. Records from historical archives are available, but they need to be collated and edited. Efforts to collate U.S. tropical cyclone information from the first half of the 19th Century using a Geographic Information System (GIS) have been conducted in this research. The Historical Hurricane Impact Tool (HHIT)...
Show moreHurricane climate research is based on data spanning the last 100 years or so. To better understand rare but potentially catastrophic hurricane events it is helpful to have longer records. Records from historical archives are available, but they need to be collated and edited. Efforts to collate U.S. tropical cyclone information from the first half of the 19th Century using a Geographic Information System (GIS) have been conducted in this research. The Historical Hurricane Impact Tool (HHIT) is based on Environmental Systems Research Institute's (ESRI) ArcView GIS 3.1. Statements concerning coastal and near-coastal impacts are reproduced within map callout boxes. The callout boxes point to the geographic location of the documented information. Map layers are used for different archival sources. The HHIT, which is available in hardcopy format and will be online in the near future via an internet map server, can be used by scientists, emergency managers, and the general public to better estimate the risk of a hurricane catastrophe. The U.S. hurricane database ("Best-Track") was recently extended from 1871 back to 1851 through the work of NOAA's Atlantic Hurricane Reanalysis Project. In addition, the previously mentioned Historical Hurricane Impact Tool (HHIT) has been utilized to collate and list recorded U.S. hurricanes back to the year 1800. The combination of NOAA's "Best-Track" data back to 1851 and the HHIT collated hurricane list back to 1800 provide an unprecedented look at U.S. hurricane activity since the beginning of the industrial revolution. This research also examines U.S. (major) hurricanes over four 50-year epochs, and then further examines regional trends in U.S. hurricanes. Seasonal distributions are similar across epochs. The earliest epoch contains the greatest ratio of major hurricanes to all U.S. hurricanes. Each epoch is further divided into three separate regions, and hurricane landfalls in Florida and the East Coast region are found to have an inverse relationship. Furthermore, the relationship between climate variables such as ENSO, the NAO, the PDO, and U.S. hurricanes appears to be different in the first epoch (1801-1850) than in the other three epochs (1851-2000). The relationships noted are robust to changes in sample size. A physical explanation for the noted trend is presented in a later chapter. Other climate influences on U.S. hurricanes, including volcanic eruptions and sunspots, are explored for effects on landfall counts.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3514
Format: Thesis

Title: The Education of a 'Learned Wife': Discovering the Reading Practices of Southern Women during the Rise of the United States.
Creator: Cohen, Kerry M., Hadden, Sally E., Moore, Dennis, Green, Elna, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "The Education of a 'Learned Wife': Discovering the Reading Practices of Southern Women during the Rise of the United States" will explore the inner thoughts of women living in the South between 1790 and 1860 to better understand how women continued to educate themselves through literature. Many women did not keep diaries and through the ages the personal writings of those who did have been lost to historians forever. Those diaries, however, that survived through publication or archives allow...
Show more"The Education of a 'Learned Wife': Discovering the Reading Practices of Southern Women during the Rise of the United States" will explore the inner thoughts of women living in the South between 1790 and 1860 to better understand how women continued to educate themselves through literature. Many women did not keep diaries and through the ages the personal writings of those who did have been lost to historians forever. Those diaries, however, that survived through publication or archives allow the life and experiences of Southern women as a whole to continue to speak and allow historians to research their reading habits and lives. The words of these women uncovered or rediscovered will direct the course of this project, allowing an exploration and analysis to piece together the lasting influences and enrichment of the mind from their reading practices.
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Date Issued: 2008
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3571
Format: Thesis

Title: 18th Century Transformations of the Jamaican Plantocracy: Edward Long and Bryan Edwards.
Creator: Bird, Robert Braxton, Childs, Matt, Anderson, Rodney, Jones, Maxine D., Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Focusing on the mid- to-late eighteenth century the purpose of this thesis is to examine the ways in which white slaveholders in Jamaica developed a unique West Indian ideology grounded in the institution of slavery and the survival of the white plantocracy. Whites were a minority in Jamaican slave society, slaveholding was widespread amongst white settlers, and all white men experienced privileges in a society organized around racialized boundaries of rule. These factors helped to ensure...
Show moreFocusing on the mid- to-late eighteenth century the purpose of this thesis is to examine the ways in which white slaveholders in Jamaica developed a unique West Indian ideology grounded in the institution of slavery and the survival of the white plantocracy. Whites were a minority in Jamaican slave society, slaveholding was widespread amongst white settlers, and all white men experienced privileges in a society organized around racialized boundaries of rule. These factors helped to ensure that Jamaican colonists developed a distinctively local, or Creole, worldview characterized by the defense of slavery and a culture of white male solidarity. However, metropolitan culture influenced their ideology, and Jamaican slaveholders saw themselves as loyal subjects of the British Crown. They were therefore colonial creoles and, in spite of the rise of abolitionism in the metropole, they maintained that their local practices were reconcilable with their status as transplanted Britons. This thesis centers itself within the debates and the ideological shifts that centered on the moral, political, and economic discussions of British Caribbean slavery during the second half of the 18th century. More specifically, I focus on the historical works of two West Indian contemporaries during the late eighteenth century: Edward Long and Bryan Edwards. Between them, they defined a period of social and cultural transition within the late eighteenth century Jamaican plantocracy. The purpose of this analysis is to explain the competing racial ideologies of the enlightenment that manifested themselves within the writings of Long and Edwards. Their works explain how these racial ideologies combined with and reinforced plantation profitability. Their positions on slavery and colonialism reflected a conflict of philosophy and reality, not only concerning the Jamaican plantocracy, but also the British West Indies as a whole. Most significant, however, is how the changing attitudes and beliefs found within these contemporary texts successfully indicated the impact of social and economic change upon the plantocracy.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3749
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: 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 Obligation of Service: The Jewish Chronicle and the Formation of the Jewish Legion during World War I.
Creator: Grace, Rachel J. K., Grant, Jonathan, Garretson, Peter, Wynot, Edward, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Out of the chaos of World War I grew a unified Jewish military group committed to championing Zionist goals. When Vladimir "Ze'ev" Jabotinsky first conceived the idea of the Jewish Legion, he envisioned it as the nucleus of a Jewish army. But first, it was necessary for Jabotinsky to take practical steps. World War I created the perfect setting for his idea to come to fruition. The world was at war, and each country needed more manpower to overcome the enemy. In addition to this practical...
Show moreOut of the chaos of World War I grew a unified Jewish military group committed to championing Zionist goals. When Vladimir "Ze'ev" Jabotinsky first conceived the idea of the Jewish Legion, he envisioned it as the nucleus of a Jewish army. But first, it was necessary for Jabotinsky to take practical steps. World War I created the perfect setting for his idea to come to fruition. The world was at war, and each country needed more manpower to overcome the enemy. In addition to this practical necessity, many people in British government and society support the goals of Zionism. What seemed to Jabotinsky like a win-win situation turned into years of struggle with the British government and military. Equally important to government support was the support of the Anglo-Jewish population. The debate over military service for both Anglo-Jews and Russo-Jews played out most clearly in the pages of the Jewish Chronicle, the oldest newspaper serving the Anglo-Jewish community. Should Jews serve as Jews in a special unit, or should they serve in the same way as other citizens? Should non-citizens be forced to serve in the British army, or should they be allowed to live off the land without fighting for its soil? The Jewish Chronicle not only presented these arguments within its pages but took part in the debate, sharing the opinion of the newspaper in editorials and columns throughout the war. The support of key individuals within the British government and Jewish society finally converged toward the end of the war. The Jewish Legion, comprised of Jews from Palestine, Russia, Britain, the United States, Argentina, and Canada, formed the 38th-40th battalions of the Royal Fusiliers and served in the Syria and Palestine campaigns at the end of World War I. The lasting significance of the Jewish Legion lies not in its service as much as in its formation. It was the first time in history when Jews and non-Jews around the world collaborated in a practical way that served the aims of Zionism.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-4082
Format: Thesis

Title: Disney and the Domestication of Nature.
Creator: Hightower, William Patrick, Davis, Frederick, Herrera, Robinson A., Jumonville, Neil, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The idea of nature in America is a socially constructed fantasy. Nowhere in America can this be seen more clearly than in Walt Disney World in Florida. Nature has been manipulated and domesticated into a completely passive experience within the Disney property in Florida. The nature presented within the park is derived from the lingering vision of Walter Elias Disney, and his singular control over his company. The Disney Company has physically shaped the environment of their property in...
Show moreThe idea of nature in America is a socially constructed fantasy. Nowhere in America can this be seen more clearly than in Walt Disney World in Florida. Nature has been manipulated and domesticated into a completely passive experience within the Disney property in Florida. The nature presented within the park is derived from the lingering vision of Walter Elias Disney, and his singular control over his company. The Disney Company has physically shaped the environment of their property in Florida. Hydrology, flora, fauna, and in some instances geology, have all been altered to present the Disney version of nature. Walt Disney created the Disney version through his world view. However, this altered state is not confined to only the environment. Time, space, and history are all altered in order to present the version that Disney wants to portray. Through their position as a family entertainment leader, Disney creates a manipulated reality that is based on Walt's worldview and consumers buy into.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-4056
Format: Thesis

Title: "Hitler Is Here": Lynching in Florida during the Era of World War II.
Creator: Hobbs, Tameka Bradley, Jones, Maxine D., Dickson-Carr, Darryl, Richardson, Joe M., Jones, James P., Childs, Matthew D., Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This historical study will examine four lynchings that took place in Florida during the 1940s. The investigations include the lynching of A. C. Williams in Gadsden County in 1941; Cellos Harrison in Jackson County in 1943; Willie James Howard in Suwannee County in 1944; and Jesse James Payne in Madison County in 1945. In addition to describing the circumstances surrounding each incident, this study also discusses the reaction of local law enforcement, Florida state public officials, the...
Show moreThis historical study will examine four lynchings that took place in Florida during the 1940s. The investigations include the lynching of A. C. Williams in Gadsden County in 1941; Cellos Harrison in Jackson County in 1943; Willie James Howard in Suwannee County in 1944; and Jesse James Payne in Madison County in 1945. In addition to describing the circumstances surrounding each incident, this study also discusses the reaction of local law enforcement, Florida state public officials, the federal government, and the press. To tell these stories, the study relied on records from local and state governments, investigative records of the U. S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation and, oral history from family members and residents of the communities in which these lynchings occurred. The study gives these incidents further exploration, in attempting to fit them into the chronology of the lynching phenomenon in the United States by extracting similarities as well as changes in the practice of lynching itself. These lynchings also indicate an increasingly negative reaction but segments of the American public against such acts of violence. This was due in part to U. S. participation in World War II and the government's increasing concern about the nation's international reputation.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-4014
Format: Thesis

Title: The Evolution of German-Jewish Intermarriage Laws and Practices in Germany to 1900.
Creator: Griffin, Christopher W., Stoltzfus, Nathan, Creswell, Michael, Sinke, Suzanne, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: In 1875, citizens throughout the recently formed German nation were for the first time allowed to intermarry without conversion. Over the course of the next fifty years, German Jews marriages to German non-Jews increased to such a level that German-Jewish intermarriage became one of the central issues in German-Jewish relations. This thesis places intermarriage within the larger frameworks of German-Jewish relations and German-Jewish history. It develops a new interpretation of the evolution...
Show moreIn 1875, citizens throughout the recently formed German nation were for the first time allowed to intermarry without conversion. Over the course of the next fifty years, German Jews marriages to German non-Jews increased to such a level that German-Jewish intermarriage became one of the central issues in German-Jewish relations. This thesis places intermarriage within the larger frameworks of German-Jewish relations and German-Jewish history. It develops a new interpretation of the evolution and legalization of intermarriage. The legalization of intermarriage took place within the framework of the kulturkampf and civil marriage debates of the early 1870s. Though intermarriage between German Jews and German non-Jews would become far more frequent after the turn of the century, intermarriage during the late nineteenth century had far more important political, religious, and social implications than mere numbers would suggest.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3962
Format: Thesis

Title: Raging Moderates: Second Party Politics and the Creation of a Whig Aristocracy in Williamson County, Tennessee, 1812-1846.
Creator: Holladay, Robert, Koschnik, Albrect, Jones, James P., Childs, Matt, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Williamson County, Tennessee, moved from support of Andrew Jackson in the aftermath of the War of 1812, to become, by the Mexican War, the most pronounced Whig County in Middle Tennessee through a combination of personal, economic and political issues. Political leadership, economic nationalism and fears that Jackson's personality and policies undermined republicanism created a political culture that abjured sectionalism even after the Mexican War and increasing tensions over slavery. During...
Show moreWilliamson County, Tennessee, moved from support of Andrew Jackson in the aftermath of the War of 1812, to become, by the Mexican War, the most pronounced Whig County in Middle Tennessee through a combination of personal, economic and political issues. Political leadership, economic nationalism and fears that Jackson's personality and policies undermined republicanism created a political culture that abjured sectionalism even after the Mexican War and increasing tensions over slavery. During this period, the county became one of the wealthiest in the state through a diversified agricultural export economy based on chattel slavery, which county spokesmen lamented, but accepted as the basis for their prosperity. The presence and proximity of a number of political leaders of state and national renown, including John Eaton, John Bell, James K. Polk, Sam Houston, Thomas Hart Benton, Felix Grundy and most of all Andrew Jackson, created a dynamic in which national political issues tended to dominate local concerns from an early period. Because so many of these individuals spent time in the county, citizens were used to viewing them on a human scale. Between 1812 and 1833, the county largely embraced Jackson and his policies, though veterans who had served with him in the War of 1812 had reservations about his character. Jackson's military achievements, the Panic of 1819 and reaction over the disputed election of John Quincy Adams overwhelmed those reservations in 1828 and 1832. Once Jackson became president, there was support for his handling of the Eaton Affair, and the nullification crisis, but disquiet at his veto of the bill to recharter the Bank of the United States. After Jackson removed federal deposits from the bank and supported Martin Van Buren as his successor, county support dissipated rapidly. Thereafter personal rivalry between several county leaders and James K. Polk, disputes over economic policy and a merging of market capitalist ideology with conceptions of republican virtue, ensured that voter sentiment remained opposed to the Democrats. State and local issues such as funding for internal improvements and a new state constitution added to the interparty disputes. Williamson County party politics mirrored state politics in that both Whigs and Democrats believed they were protecting fundamental republican values from assault by the opposition. Unlike the state which was evenly divided between the parties during this period, after 1833, Williamson County was overwhelmingly Whig, a position that held until secession. Since no interpretive county history of Middle Tennessee has been produced, this thesis places this crucial area in the context of both the South and the nation, building on the comprehensive work of Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Charles Sellers and Harry Watson, among others, the only statewide antebellum political study by Jonathan Atkins, and county histories from other states such as North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida by Watson, Edward Baptist, Charles Morris, Daniel Dupre, and Robert Kenzer. Most of these areas had neither the continuous nationalist outlook endemic to Williamson County throughout the antebellum period, the agricultural diversity that helped produce it, nor the proximity to markets and national political leaders that reinforced it.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3982
Format: Thesis

Title: In the Company's Secret Service: Neil Benjamin Edmonstone and the First Indian Imperialists, 1780-1820.
Creator: Chancey, Marla Karen, Singh, Bawa Satinder, O'Sullivan, Patrick M., Garretson, Peter P., Lo, Winston, Greaves, Richard L., Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Neil Benjamin Edmonstone held many important positions in the East India Company's Indian service during a career spanning 34 years, from 1783 to 1818. He was at various times Persian Translator to Government, Chief Secretary to Government, Secretary of the Secret Foreign and Political Department, Vice President of the Supreme Council at Calcutta and acting governor-general on two occasions. He served as the Company's chief intelligence officer for more than twenty years, taking on espionage...
Show moreNeil Benjamin Edmonstone held many important positions in the East India Company's Indian service during a career spanning 34 years, from 1783 to 1818. He was at various times Persian Translator to Government, Chief Secretary to Government, Secretary of the Secret Foreign and Political Department, Vice President of the Supreme Council at Calcutta and acting governor-general on two occasions. He served as the Company's chief intelligence officer for more than twenty years, taking on espionage occasionally himself, but more frequently directing the activities of others. He was thereafter a member of the Company's chief governing body, the Court of Directors, from 1820 until his death in 1841. In addition to providing the first biographical study of Edmonstone, this work includes a discussion of the lives of important civil servants of his generation, many of which have never received scholarly attention. The essential thesis of the work is that Edmonstone, and the group of civil servants around him, formed the first deliberately expansionist government in the Company's history. They combined all of the requirements for imperial success--a passionately held ideology, a sound plan for achieving their aims, and more expertise on the sub-continent than any previous generation had attained.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3921
Format: Thesis

Title: Women in the Nineteenth Century Unitarian Controversy.
Creator: Hornback, Kimberly, Jumonville, Neil, Jones, Maxine, Porterfield, Amanda, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Despite the work that has been done on the Unitarian controversy in nineteenth century Boston, little is known about the effects of the controversy on women. This study examines the lives of Catharine Beecher, Elizabeth Peabody, and Mary Ware. An analysis of their lives yields answers to the question: How did the Unitarian controversy affect the private and social lives of these women? In addition, this study seeks to uncover some of the broader currents of American thought that accompanied...
Show moreDespite the work that has been done on the Unitarian controversy in nineteenth century Boston, little is known about the effects of the controversy on women. This study examines the lives of Catharine Beecher, Elizabeth Peabody, and Mary Ware. An analysis of their lives yields answers to the question: How did the Unitarian controversy affect the private and social lives of these women? In addition, this study seeks to uncover some of the broader currents of American thought that accompanied the growth of Unitarianism.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3777
Format: Thesis

Title: Victorian War Correspondents G.A. Henty and H.M. Stanley: The 'Abyssinian' Campaign 1867-1868.
Creator: Hoover, Nora K., Garretson, Peter P., O’Sullivan, Patrick, Creswell, Michael, Grant, Jonathon, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Contemporary historians of the British military expedition to Abyssinia (hereafter called Ethiopia) generally ascribed the source of the Ethiopian conflict to the lack of a reply from Queen Victoria to a letter from Tewodros II, in which he requested military aid and the exchange of ambassadors. The victorious campaign enhanced the power and prestige of Britain in both Europe and the Middle East. In the extant literature, however, the role of the "specials," George A. Henty and Henry M....
Show moreContemporary historians of the British military expedition to Abyssinia (hereafter called Ethiopia) generally ascribed the source of the Ethiopian conflict to the lack of a reply from Queen Victoria to a letter from Tewodros II, in which he requested military aid and the exchange of ambassadors. The victorious campaign enhanced the power and prestige of Britain in both Europe and the Middle East. In the extant literature, however, the role of the "specials," George A. Henty and Henry M. Stanley, assigned to report on the conduct of the war, has yet to be examined. This study was undertaken in an effort to better understand the history of war reporting by civilians. Why were war correspondents deemed necessary, and how could civilians understand and effectively convey the facts of the conflict? To what extent did the military commander accept or allow such intrusion, and how strictly enforce censorship? How influential were the correspondents' descriptions of a virtually unknown people on the reading public? How willing were the correspondents to treat both sides fairly, and how would that accord with the editorial tone of the newspaper. Finally, while the presence of the correspondents may not have directly affected the outcome of the conflict, was it possible that correspondents, such as Henty and Stanley, exerted more influence on the newspaper readership than others because of their strong imperial views? Inevitably, the correspondents' reports on Ethiopia informed the views of their readership, and shaped their ideas on non-European peoples and imperial expansion. Significantly, as the Empire grew, Henty's and Stanley's imperialistic views gained in popularity, and Henty's fictional boy heroes helped a generation envision the qualities necessary for the colonial administrator. Stanley's African explorations in search of Dr. Livingstone captured the imagination of the world, and enhanced the idea of imperial expansion. Both correspondents made significant contributions to the history of war literature by writing books composed of their dispatches.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3786
Format: Thesis

Title: Emergency Measures and Contingency in the French Revolution, 1792-1794.
Creator: Horan, Joseph William, McMahon, Darrin, Childs, Matt, Friedman, Max Paul, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The historiography of the French Revolution is perhaps the most extensive and diverse of any event in world history. A significant portion of this historiography has viewed the Revolution as the culmination of long-term trends, whether political, social or cultural. The goal of this study is to suggest that such approaches should not obscure the importance of circumstance and contingency in shaping the outcome of the Revolution. This argument is developed through an examination of four...
Show moreThe historiography of the French Revolution is perhaps the most extensive and diverse of any event in world history. A significant portion of this historiography has viewed the Revolution as the culmination of long-term trends, whether political, social or cultural. The goal of this study is to suggest that such approaches should not obscure the importance of circumstance and contingency in shaping the outcome of the Revolution. This argument is developed through an examination of four emergency measures ratified by the revolutionary government between 1792 and 1794. These measures formed the political basis for the Terror, and their enactment forced political leaders to constantly question the nature of the Revolution and their role in directing its progress. In this process, factors such as the military crisis, public disorders and administrative breakdown played a crucial role. This suggests that the immediate circumstances of 1792-94 were crucial in the factionalism and centralization that developed over the course of the Terror.
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Date Issued: 2006
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3782
Format: Thesis

Title: Fear and Domination: Pierre Riel, the Marquis de Beurnonville at the Spanish Court and Napoleon Bonaparte's Spanish Policy, 1802-05.
Creator: Jones, Michael W., Horward, Donald D., Grant, Jonathan, Jones, James, O'Sullivan, Patrick, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Napoleon Bonaparte's foreign policy was perhaps the crucial weakness in the First Empire's fate. Through strength of arms on the battlefields of Europe, Napoleon was able to subdue and dominate Europe, yet it was this very strength which facilitated a belligerent course with France's allies. This was exemplified by Napoleon's use of twenty-two generals as ambassadors for the First Empire. Therefore, when Napoleon turned to Spain, he was not seeking to strengthen a historical alliance through...
Show moreNapoleon Bonaparte's foreign policy was perhaps the crucial weakness in the First Empire's fate. Through strength of arms on the battlefields of Europe, Napoleon was able to subdue and dominate Europe, yet it was this very strength which facilitated a belligerent course with France's allies. This was exemplified by Napoleon's use of twenty-two generals as ambassadors for the First Empire. Therefore, when Napoleon turned to Spain, he was not seeking to strengthen a historical alliance through mutually supportive policy; rather he sought to force his ally to subordinate its interests to France. From 1802-05, General Pierre Riel, the Marquis de Beurnonville, served as Napoleon's ambassador to the Spanish court. Although Beurnonville's character was at times a hindrance, the ambassador never flinched from the difficult course Napoleon demanded. Beurnonville forced Charles IV's reluctant government to accept damaging commercial treaties, a subsidy of seventy-two million francs and finally to join its navy with France to battle the British fleet. The focus of this dissertation is to shed light on a crucial period of Franco-Spanish relations. Under Beurnonville's tenure, Napoleon sowed the seeds of his disastrous invasion of Spain. The renewal of war with Britain in 1802, led Napoleon to augment the French navy and prepare for an invasion of the British Isles. Spain became an important component of Napoleon's strategy to invade England. Initially, the First Consul planned to substitute seventy-two million francs of Spanish gold, a sum that British leaders estimated would field fifteen ships-of-the-line and 200,000 French troops, for Spain's martial commitment. Spain, under Manuel Godoy's leadership, sought to avoid paying this financial burden because the nation could not afford it and payment could lead to war with Britain. The result of his efforts was an ultimatum and invasion scare from France. Once Spain reluctantly accepted its treaty obligations England reciprocated with its own ultimatum and attacked the Spanish treasure fleet. In the aftermath of this action, Spain declared war on England. Thereafter, Beurnonville and Godoy strove to rebuild the moribund Spanish navy. Ultimately, their efforts were capped with Spain's contribution to the Allied fleet at Trafalgar.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3434
Format: Thesis

Title: Ideology, Practicality, and Fiscal Necessity: The Creation of the Archives Nationales and the Triage of Feudal Titles by the Agence Temporaire Des Titres, 1789-1801.
Creator: Cox, Katherine Ly, McMahon, Darrin, Blaufarb, Rafe, Mineo, Claudia, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The Archives nationales has a history all its own—a history tied firmly to revolutionary ideology, pragmatism, and fiscal necessity. On 29 July 1789, a mere two weeks after the storming of the Bastille, legislators of the National Assembly voted to create a repository that would house all documents produced by and relative to the operations of the new state; it was named the Archives of the National Assembly. Revolutionaries later adopted the name "Archives nationales" and steadily gave form...
Show moreThe Archives nationales has a history all its own—a history tied firmly to revolutionary ideology, pragmatism, and fiscal necessity. On 29 July 1789, a mere two weeks after the storming of the Bastille, legislators of the National Assembly voted to create a repository that would house all documents produced by and relative to the operations of the new state; it was named the Archives of the National Assembly. Revolutionaries later adopted the name "Archives nationales" and steadily gave form to the institution with each passing year. But on 25 June 1794, legislators consolidated all previous mandates concerning the Archives nationales into one decree—the law of 7 messidor II. The forty-eight articles outlined in 7 messidor II made it the most comprehensive law governing the Archives nationales throughout the course of the Revolution. The establishment of the Archives nationales in 1789 and the state's later efforts to acquire the deposits of the Old Regime illustrate a dramatic change in the French governmental attitudes towards archives. In relation to archival deposits maintained under the Old Regime, the notion of a national repository was itself quite revolutionary. For centuries, archives existed in private, decentralized deposits dispersed throughout the nation; revolutionaries were the first to erect a truly national repository that cataloged and maintained documents under the instruction of one institution. At the start of their work in the fall of 1790, revolutionaries faced an estimated 5,700 archival repositories scattered across the country, each varying in size, content, and arrangement. But it was not until 1794 that legislators began an aggressive campaign to integrate deposits of the Old Regime into the Archives nationales in hopes of utilizing feudal records for the political, fiscal, or pedagogical benefit to the Revolution. Since the creation of the Archives nationales was such an unprecedented attempt to consolidate and arrange records of the Old Regime and revolutionary state, the history of the Archives nationales is often told as a narrative of progress. Overtly positive interpretations of the archival legislation passed during the Revolution often fail to account for the Revolution's destructive character. Legislators indeed designed the law of 7 messidor II to arrange and preserve all documents generated by the new state, alongside records produced under the Old Regime. But the law also called for the deliberate and systematic destruction of feudal records by creating an agency, known as the Agence Temporaire des Titres, to carry out the triage of archival deposits—a process of examining and sorting records into two categories, labeling them with either the word "to preserve" (conserver) or "to annihilate" (anéatir). Legislators therefore designed the process of the triage in the law of 7 messidor II to distinguish between feudal documents that were considered either "useful" or "useless" to the nation. Feudal titles to land, property, water, and windmills were among the most valuable and consistently sought after documents because they provided revenue to the Revolution; the state could sell titles to land and property that they acquired from the various Old Regime deposits as Bien Nationaux, thereby accruing a profit for the government. By contrast, titles of nobility, genealogy charts, and other records validating aristocratic privileges—referred in the collectively as "purely feudal titles" or "titles to abolished feudal rights"—were among the most sought after documents for annihilation because of the records' association with "an abhorrent feudal past." The law of 7 messidor II originated at the height of radical violence and bloodshed; feudal titles to nobility and privilege fell victim to the National Convention because of the substantial power these records granted to the aristocracy in the feudal past—a past that stood, by its nature, in opposition to the new revolutionary state. The public burning of feudal records at the hands of the public and revolutionary government served as an important and particularly violent show of power—the destruction of records that represented the legal and symbolic power of the aristocracy came to signal an end to the political, social, and economic order of feudalism. Scholarship regarding the law of 7 messidor II views revolutionary ideology as the strongest motivating factor in pushing the developments of the Archives nationales forward, but there are still other avenues that are just as important to our understanding of the Archives nationales that scholars have not yet explored. Even though revolutionaries supported archival destruction, practicality and the need to clear space in the holdings of the Archives was one alternative motive driving the destruction of documents. Financial necessity also inspired revolutionaries to preserve feudal records of financial utility; titles to land and property demonstrate how legislators put aside the ideological warfare they raged on feudal records so long as the state could derive some monetary benefit from the papers left behind by the Old Regime. Ideology, practicality, and fiscal necessity thus proved to be the central strategies governing the organization of the Archives nationales, the legislative mandates to seize and absorb deposits of the Old Regime, the creation of 7 messidor II in 1794, and the triage of deposits throughout Revolution. The Agence Temporaire des Titres, in this examination, serves as a gateway to understanding the political, economic, and cultural contexts of the Revolution that shaped the developments of the Archives nationales and the triage of feudal records. We come to see that in practice, agents concentrated more on the recovery and preservation of records of financial utility and less on the destruction of feudal titles to nobility and privilege; the revenue provided by titles to land and property outweighed the ideological desire of revolutionaries to destroy the papers as "abhorrent" vestiges of feudalism. The developments of the Archives nationales and the treatment of Old Regime records likewise illustrate major themes that are of particular interest to historians of the French Revolution; the destruction of feudal archives was one means used by the public and legislature to validate the defeat of aristocratic power and to prevent a return to the economic, social, and political structure of feudalism. The public burning of feudal documents also adds to our understanding of an emerging revolutionary culture that materialized in the form of festivals and celebratory performances. But the creation of the agency under the law of 7 messidor II signified the ultimate transformation of the Archives nationales into a political instrument of the revolutionary state—whereby legislators could shape the laws governing the Archives to fulfill their ideological, political, historical, and fiscal interests. Hence, this thesis regards the Archives nationales not as a neutral site of information, but rather as a site of conflict between past and present regimes, between advocates of archival destruction and preservation, and between remembering and forgetting. The goal of chapter one is to illustrate how the act of creating an archival repository for government documents forced legislators in 1789 to answer the questions "what is an archive" and "what kind of documents are worth keeping." It begins with a summary of archival repositories before 1789 to better illustrate the distinction between record-keeping under the Old Regime and revolutionary government. The discussion then leads into a description of the first formative years of the Archives nationales between years 1789 and 1791, with emphasis on the ways in which legislators relied on the information yield by records of revolutionary and Old Regime origin. The bulk of the chapter details how National Archivist Armand-Gaston Camus organized documents, how legislators used records to serve their legal initiatives, and how their use of feudal documents led revolutionaries to reflect on the legal, fiscal, and historical power of documents created under the Old Regime and the potential of these records to threaten the new state. Chapter two details the revolutionary treatment of archives between years 1789 and 1794. The goal of this chapter is to explain the political, cultural, and social landscape of this tumultuous period from which the law of 7 messidor II came into being. The first part describes the assault on feudal archives led by the rural and urban communities and draws out the popular perception of these records as markers of an "abhorrent" feudal past. The latter half details the laws of 1792 and 1793, which authorized the public burning of titles to abolished feudal rights and represented one facet of a much larger campaign of destruction intended to obliterate the vestiges of the Old Regime. The debates that took place between advocates of archival destruction and archival preservation in the session of 1792 reveal how the majority of legislators sought to manipulate the content of the Archives nationales to symbolize the Revolution's political and ideological rejection of the Old Regime and to showcase the supremacy of the new state. The final section examines how the law of 7 messidor II was not only shaped by the ideological currents taking hold at the time, but also by the practical and fiscal necessities of the state. Chapter three features a comprehensive examination of the policies and practices of the Agence Temporaire des Titres in an effort to show how the triage of Old Regime deposits was more difficult to carry out in practice than legislators anticipated. It begins by describing the size and scope of Old Regime deposits in order to grasp just how large of a logistical challenge it was for agents to separate titles of utility from titles destined by law for annihilation. The inconsistencies, challenges, and contradictions of the triage become apparent as readers trace the work of the agency over the course of its six years in operation. Undeniably, the destruction of records took place at the hands of the Agence Temporaire des Titres. What is disputed, however, is the extent to which agents could and did destroy titles to abolished feudal privileges. The latter part of this chapter, therefore, is reserved to show the factors that account for why feudal titles of abolished feudal rights still exist in the holdings of the Archives nationales to this day.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3350
Format: Thesis

Title: Imagining the Tupamaros: Resistance and Gender in Uruguayan and U.S. Revolutionary Movements, 1960s-1980s.
Creator: Churchill, Lindsey Blake, Herrera, Robinson A., Cappuccio, Brenda, Aviña, Alex, Frank, Andrew, Gray, Ed, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Using sources located in archives and special collections in Argentina, Uruguay and the United States, this dissertation challenges long held assumptions about the Uruguayan Tupamaros. I employ the methodologies of social and cultural history and feminist scholarship to examine the relationship between state repression and revolutionary resistance, the transnational connections between the Uruguayan Tupamaros and leftist groups in the US as well as issues of gender and sexuality within...
Show moreUsing sources located in archives and special collections in Argentina, Uruguay and the United States, this dissertation challenges long held assumptions about the Uruguayan Tupamaros. I employ the methodologies of social and cultural history and feminist scholarship to examine the relationship between state repression and revolutionary resistance, the transnational connections between the Uruguayan Tupamaros and leftist groups in the US as well as issues of gender and sexuality within radical movements. I argue that the Tupamaros engaged in an active discussion with US-based revolutionaries. Focusing on the perspective of Latin Americans during the Cold War, this dissertation examines what the Uruguayan left thought about US politics and culture. I uncover that the Uruguayan left saw the US as two Americas. They criticized the US government but allied with many of its people. This occurred both in the imagination of Uruguayans and in real life connections forged between leftists. While scholars have primarily explored Cuba's influence on the North American left, I focus on the ways in which the Uruguayan left (particularly the Tupamaros) shaped the activism of US leftists. This study also adds to the discussion of gender and sexuality in Latin America as I investigate whether or not gender reorganization represented a true political goal of the Tupamaros or if their inclusion of women primarily constituted revolutionary rhetoric. While most of the Uruguayan left focused on motherhood as inspiring women's politics, the Tupamaros disdained traditional constructions of femininity for female combatants. Therefore, although at times problematic, the Tupamaros offered women a new avenue for political participation.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3611
Format: Thesis

Title: Slavery and Antislavery in the Founding of Georgia and New South Wales.
Creator: Craig, Winfield Scott, Gray, Edward, Jones, James P., Oshatz, Mary, Department of History, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the development of antislavery ideologies in both colonial Georgia and New South Wales. It unveils the reasoning behind the creation of Georgia, as a colony that would serve as a receptacle for debtors and the English poor, and traces the rise and fall of a new colonial paradigm that would have excluded slavery in the New World. Though the Georgia project ultimately failed, a similar ideology was developed in the founding of the penal colony, New South Wales. Slavery was...
Show moreThis thesis examines the development of antislavery ideologies in both colonial Georgia and New South Wales. It unveils the reasoning behind the creation of Georgia, as a colony that would serve as a receptacle for debtors and the English poor, and traces the rise and fall of a new colonial paradigm that would have excluded slavery in the New World. Though the Georgia project ultimately failed, a similar ideology was developed in the founding of the penal colony, New South Wales. Slavery was again excluded from a colony in the British Empire, as an endless supply of convict laborers became the equivalent of slaves. Convict transportation to Australia was eventually stopped in the nineteenth century, and as a result Queensland planters turned to the race-based slavery of South Sea Islanders.
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Date Issued: 2010
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-3227
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

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