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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: 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: 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: The Little Island Will Not Be a Trifling Jewel: Great Britain and Malta: 1798-1824.
Creator: Zwilling, Andrew, Gray, Edward G., Porterfield, Amanda, Blaufarb, Rafe, Jones, James Pickett, Upchurch, Charles, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show moreZwilling, Andrew, Gray, Edward G., Porterfield, Amanda, Blaufarb, Rafe, Jones, James Pickett, Upchurch, Charles, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: This project examines the creation and early administration of Malta as a British colony, between the years 1798 and 1824. For centuries, Britain’s imperial ambitions and Malta’s role in the Mediterranean operated on largely parallel courses, very rarely intersecting. This changed during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. British acquisition and development of Malta occurred during these conflicts, with all the inherent chaos and uncertainty that war creates. The Maltese people...
Show moreThis project examines the creation and early administration of Malta as a British colony, between the years 1798 and 1824. For centuries, Britain’s imperial ambitions and Malta’s role in the Mediterranean operated on largely parallel courses, very rarely intersecting. This changed during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. British acquisition and development of Malta occurred during these conflicts, with all the inherent chaos and uncertainty that war creates. The Maltese people endured a two-year- long siege against the French in Valletta, and saw the islands’ previous rulers, the Knights of St. John, deposed. Prior to that, Malta suffered a decade of fiscal ruin brought on by the French Revolution. The Maltese needed permanence and recovery, a difficult task for the British in a wartime climate. However, within the instability of war there was also opportunity. Malta’s relationships with other nations’ markets opened for expansion, especially given the island chain’s central location and longstanding reputation as a safe port of call. At the core of this narrative are the British officials tasked with administering Malta, especially the civil commissioners (later governors), whose decisions were crucial in shaping Malta’s growth under British rule. British Malta faced many challenges, including food shortages, international uncertainly, internal intrigue and plague. It was under the early administrators that British Malta saw some success, but mostly failure.
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Date Issued: 2018
Identifier: 2018_Sp_Zwilling_fsu_0071E_14389
Format: Thesis

Title: Empire of Direct Mail: Media, Fundraising, and Conservative Political Consultants.
Creator: Moriyama, Takahito, Piehler, G. Kurt, Gomez, Brad T., Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Sinke, Suzanne M., Creswell, Michael, McVicar, Michael J., Florida State University, College of Arts...
Show moreMoriyama, Takahito, Piehler, G. Kurt, Gomez, Brad T., Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Sinke, Suzanne M., Creswell, Michael, McVicar, Michael J., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: This study examines the rise of modern American conservatism by analyzing the role of computerized direct mail in the conservative movement from the 1950s to the 1980s. In the post-World War II years, the advertising industry on Madison Avenue developed direct marketing to reach out to prospective customers. As political consultants in New York City introduced the new advertising strategy into politics during the 1950s, direct mail became an important medium especially for conservatives when...
Show moreThis study examines the rise of modern American conservatism by analyzing the role of computerized direct mail in the conservative movement from the 1950s to the 1980s. In the post-World War II years, the advertising industry on Madison Avenue developed direct marketing to reach out to prospective customers. As political consultants in New York City introduced the new advertising strategy into politics during the 1950s, direct mail became an important medium especially for conservatives when the majority of mass media was liberal. Empire of Direct Mail focuses on conservative activists in New York and Washington, D.C., such as Marvin Liebman and Richard Viguerie, narrating how direct mail contributed to right-wing organizations and politicians. Constructing the computer database of personal information, direct mail operatives compiled mailing lists of supporters, which provided conservative candidates, including Barry Goldwater, George Wallace, and Ronald Reagan, with nationwide networks of voters and contributors. Right-wing messengers effectively employed direct mail by using emotion as a campaign strategy. They capitalized on rage and discontent in post-1960s America in order to court Southern Democrats, middle-class white suburbanites, and blue-collar workers. While liberal critics condemned conservatives for their emotionalism, liberals unintentionally promoted direct mail politics. The Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974 brought about the ascendancy of conservative direct mail as the liberal campaign finance reform prohibited big contribution. Direct mail had profound impacts not only on the conservative movement but also on American politics, creating a grassroots activism as the mass of small contribution rather than the accumulation of local engagement. Thus, this research demonstrates how direct mail played a role in transforming the contours of American politics and how it affected American political participation in the twentieth century.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Moriyama_fsu_0071E_15002
Format: Thesis

Title: Zeitfreiwillige and Freikorpskämpfer Paramilitaries of Early Weimar Germany.
Creator: Ellis, David Sloan, Grant, Jonathan A., Williamson, George S., Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract/Description: During the early years of the Weimar Republic paramilitary organizations were commonplace. With the dissolution of the Imperial Army after the German defeat in World War I, the new republican government needed a means to ensure its authority and fostered volunteer troops known as Freikorps. These units could be raised and led by any with both the financial and charismatic means to do so and held no uniform model or political motivation. They saw the most action during the German Revolution,...
Show moreDuring the early years of the Weimar Republic paramilitary organizations were commonplace. With the dissolution of the Imperial Army after the German defeat in World War I, the new republican government needed a means to ensure its authority and fostered volunteer troops known as Freikorps. These units could be raised and led by any with both the financial and charismatic means to do so and held no uniform model or political motivation. They saw the most action during the German Revolution, along the Eastern Border, and in the Ruhr. Their campaigns during the Revolution secured the position of the new administration but split the Labor Parties which prevented a majority government from forming for much of the 1920s. The string of short-lived cabinets prevented the stabilization of the Weimar Government, provided strong extra-constitutional powers to the President, and created the opportunity for previously fringe radical parties to become legitimate coalition members. After the acceptance of the Treaty of Versailles and the implementation of its restrictions, these units became highly disillusioned and hostile towards the Weimar Government and drifted towards the political Right. Led by nationalistic generals and political officials who wanted to reject the Treaty, the Freikorps units that emerged from the Revolution attempted several times to violently overthrow the government, but none would succeed. Their failures and the continued pressure of the Entente to disband all paramilitaries pushed the remaining Freikorps fighters into police units, the border guard, secret military reserves, and labor groups. They would reappear whenever Germany’s borders became threatened, but gradually lost support in the stability of the Golden Age of Weimar in the mid-1920s. Unwilling to accept the government and wholly disperse, Freikorps members moved into politics itself via war veteran organizations and the growing Right-wing parties. Having fought to support and later destroy the Weimar Government, they knew the only way to bring about the change they wanted to see would be to enter the system itself. Raised to provide authority to the Republic, the Freikorps greatly weakened the political Left, allowed the Right time to recuperate, bolstering their ranks in the 1930s.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Ellis_fsu_0071N_15191
Format: Thesis

Title: Before, during, and Beyond: Historical Time and the German Revolutions of 1848 and 1849.
Creator: Thomas, Trevor, Williamson, George S., Gellately, Robert, Herrera, Robinson A., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
Abstract/Description: This study explores the ways by which notions of historical time informed those involved in the German revolutions of 1848 and 1849. Building on the theories of historical time offered by the German historian and theorist Reinhart Koselleck, this study argues that those opposing and supporting the revolutions operated within a temporal schema that was ideologically constructed. The ubiquitous presence of the French Revolution in German revolutionary and counterrevolutionary discourse, the...
Show moreThis study explores the ways by which notions of historical time informed those involved in the German revolutions of 1848 and 1849. Building on the theories of historical time offered by the German historian and theorist Reinhart Koselleck, this study argues that those opposing and supporting the revolutions operated within a temporal schema that was ideologically constructed. The ubiquitous presence of the French Revolution in German revolutionary and counterrevolutionary discourse, the deliberate creation of an ideologically-charged “revolutionary moment,” and the multi-layered perceptions of time common to those involved in Germany’s failed constitutional project all demonstrate the malleable nature of the past, present, and future. The study employs the stenographic reports of the German National Assembly, pamphlets, petitions, memoirs, diaries, political tracts, and cultural productions to back these claims.
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Spring_Thomas_fsu_0071N_15224
Format: Thesis

Title: The Milner Legacy: The Empire and Appeasement Shaped Interwar Anglo-German Relations.
Creator: Valladares, David M. (David Miguel), Creswell, Michael, Souva, Mark A., Blaufarb, Rafe, Grant, Jonathan A., Upchurch, Charles, Florida State University, College of Arts and...
Show moreValladares, David M. (David Miguel), Creswell, Michael, Souva, Mark A., Blaufarb, Rafe, Grant, Jonathan A., Upchurch, Charles, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Abstract/Description: The "Cliveden Set" was a 1930s, upper class group of prominent individuals who were politically influential in Britain during the interwar period. The group's members included notable politicians, journalist, and aristocrats such as Nancy Astor, Geoffrey Dawson, Philip Kerr, Edward Wood, and Robert Brand. The term "Cliveden Set," meant as a pejorative term, was coined by journalist Claud Cockburn who wrote for the newspaper The Week. Cockburn linked Geoffrey Dawson and The Times to a network...
Show moreThe "Cliveden Set" was a 1930s, upper class group of prominent individuals who were politically influential in Britain during the interwar period. The group's members included notable politicians, journalist, and aristocrats such as Nancy Astor, Geoffrey Dawson, Philip Kerr, Edward Wood, and Robert Brand. The term "Cliveden Set," meant as a pejorative term, was coined by journalist Claud Cockburn who wrote for the newspaper The Week. Cockburn linked Geoffrey Dawson and The Times to a network led by the Astors who had an "extraordinary position of concentrated political power" and had become "one of the most important supports of German influence." Considered to be a scapegoat for Britain's Appeasement Policy by many historians, the Cliveden Set utilized their influence to encourage a British foreign policy that supported Hitler's rearmament and the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia. Their goal was to preserve British Imperial rule and promote the unification of the British dominions. Philip Kerr, Geoffrey Dawson, Robert Brand and Lionel Curtis had all been members of Milner's Kindergarten in South Africa. Waldorf and Nancy Astor, who owned The Times and the Cliveden Estate, and others, sought to supplement formula for imperial unification that was demonstrated by Alfred Milner during South African reconstruction. By adopting this template of imperial preservation which was exercised by Milner's Kindergarten, the Cliveden Set's role in the developments that led to World War II became substantial..
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Date Issued: 2019
Identifier: 2019_Summer_Valladares_fsu_0071E_15174
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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: 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: 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: 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

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