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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.
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)
The Russian bell: did the Soviets alter the zvon?
Title
The Russian bell: did the Soviets alter the zvon?.
Creator
McGurgan, Heather., Florida State University
Abstract/Description
This research will determine whether the Soviet efforts to first silence, then substitute, annihilate, and finally alter the church bell succeeded in changing its importance in Russian culture and society. Through historical analysis of the bell's role before and after the Soviet era, it is believed that the resurgence of the ringing tradition illustrates the cultural and social integrity of the bell in Russia--and furthermore, of Orthodoxy's hardiness, despite some intrusion on modernity's...
Show moreThis research will determine whether the Soviet efforts to first silence, then substitute, annihilate, and finally alter the church bell succeeded in changing its importance in Russian culture and society. Through historical analysis of the bell's role before and after the Soviet era, it is believed that the resurgence of the ringing tradition illustrates the cultural and social integrity of the bell in Russia--and furthermore, of Orthodoxy's hardiness, despite some intrusion on modernity's part. It is hoped that this will not only shed some light on a rarely discussed yet vital tradition in Russia, but also will illustrate the often disregarded continuity of Russian culture, even through the Soviet era.
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Date Issued
2008
Identifier
468826476, 341763, FSDT341763, fsu:19332
Format
Document (PDF)
Reformed fundamentalism in America
Title
Reformed fundamentalism in America: the lordship of Christ, the transformation of culture, and other Calvinist components of the Christian Right.
Creator
Johnson, Daymon
Identifier
FSU_BT822J641994
Format
Document (PDF)
Railroad projects in territorial Florida
Title
Railroad projects in territorial Florida.
Creator
Dodd, Dorothy
Date Issued
1929
Identifier
26981113, FSU_ARCH_HE2771F6D671929
Format
Document (PDF)
New Japan
Title
New Japan.
Creator
Wells, Bessie
Date Issued
1914
Identifier
15496115, FSU_ARCH_DS835W44
Format
Document (PDF)
Memorias de mujeres, metamorfosis de los modelos de identidad de las españolas en novelas adaptadas al cine en los 90
Title
Memorias de mujeres, metamorfosis de los modelos de identidad de las españolas en novelas adaptadas al cine en los 90.
Creator
Pérez-Franco, Antonia Teresa
Identifier
49556575, FSU_HQ1154P472001
Format
Document (PDF)
Marcus Antonius triumvir, 82-42 B.C., according to the sources
Title
Marcus Antonius triumvir, 82-42 B.C., according to the sources.
Creator
Ball, Anne Ellen
Date Issued
1929
Identifier
16667733, FSU_ARCH_DG260A6B34
Format
Document (PDF)
Kung-Fu Cowboys to Bronx B-Boys
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
Italian Occupation of Slovenia and the Aftermath of World War II
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
Illustrated American and the Lakota Ghost Dance
Title
The Illustrated American and the Lakota Ghost Dance.
Creator
Bearor, Karen
Abstract/Description
The ceremonial dance contemporary reporters dubbed the ghost dance has inspired shelves of books and hundreds of articles, both popular and scholarly. Called the spirit dance by the Lakota, it was part of a revivalist and millennialist movement sweeping through Native American tribes in the West in the late 1880s and early 1890s. As such, it remains cemented in the country's collective consciousness by its association with the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890, that inglorious symbol...
Show moreThe ceremonial dance contemporary reporters dubbed the ghost dance has inspired shelves of books and hundreds of articles, both popular and scholarly. Called the spirit dance by the Lakota, it was part of a revivalist and millennialist movement sweeping through Native American tribes in the West in the late 1880s and early 1890s. As such, it remains cemented in the country's collective consciousness by its association with the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890, that inglorious symbol for both the end of the Indian wars and the failure of governmental and reformist policies.
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Date Issued
2011
Identifier
FSU_migr_arh_faculty_publications-0001, 10.1353/amp.2011.0009
Format
Citation
How Accurate Is Wikipedia?
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
History and its cultural value
Title
History and its cultural value.
Creator
Carter, Helen M. (Helen Mae)
Date Issued
1914
Identifier
15686955, FSU_ARCH_D13C288
Format
Document (PDF)
Historia de las biografias de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Title
Historia de las biografias de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
Creator
Sliwa, Krzysztof
Date Issued
[1997]
Identifier
38108454, FSU_ARCH_PQ6337S551997
Format
Document (PDF)
Far from fields of glory
Title
Far from fields of glory: military operations in Florida during the Civil War, 1864-1865.
Creator
Coles, David J.
Date Issued
1996
Identifier
FS00000103_00001, 2821568, fsu:89548
Format
E-book
El control de la natalidad y el día de la madre
Title
El control de la natalidad y el día de la madre: política feminista y reaccionaria en México, 1922- 1923.
Creator
Buck Kachaluba, Sarah A.
Abstract/Description
El artículo la política feminista mexicana durante el periodo de 1922-1923. Feministas como Margaret Sanger y Esperanza Velázquez Bringas expusieron que el país necesitaba una política acerca del control de la natalidad. Ellas argumentaban que los programas patrocinados del Estado para este control podrían liberar las mujeres y proporcionar los medios para la modernización y desarrollo.
Date Issued
2001
Identifier
FSU_migr_library_faculty_publications-0008
Format
Citation
Debate of Pope Pius XII's Silence in the Holocaust
Title
The Debate of Pope Pius XII's Silence in the Holocaust.
Creator
Whitman, Kayleigh, Department of History
Date Issued
2013
Identifier
FSU_migr_undergradresearch-0032
Format
Citation
Cross-Cultural Look at a Meaningful Life and a Happy Life
Title
A Cross-Cultural Look at a Meaningful Life and a Happy Life.
Creator
Batista, Rafael, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
There are many characteristics of a good life including a sense of meaning and happiness. A historical introduction presented here illustrates this dual conceptualization as existing since ancient times. Recent work by Baumeister, Vohs, Aaker, and Garbinsky (2013) revealed key differences between a meaningful life and a happy life. Meaningfulness, for example, was associated with integrating past, present, and future thinking, whereas happiness was primarily present-oriented. While...
Show moreThere are many characteristics of a good life including a sense of meaning and happiness. A historical introduction presented here illustrates this dual conceptualization as existing since ancient times. Recent work by Baumeister, Vohs, Aaker, and Garbinsky (2013) revealed key differences between a meaningful life and a happy life. Meaningfulness, for example, was associated with integrating past, present, and future thinking, whereas happiness was primarily present-oriented. While meaningfulness and happiness have each been studied independently across cultures, a cross-cultural comparison of the two has yet to be published. Baumeister (1991) suggests purpose, values, efficacy, and self-worth are universal needs for meaningfulness. Surveying students from Turkey (n = 124) and the United States (n = 231) we replicate previous findings and present empirical data supporting universal needs for meaningfulness while arguing for the inclusion of a fifth universal need: belongingness.
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Date Issued
2014
Identifier
FSU_migr_uhm-0412
Format
Set of related objects
Constructing a Historiography of Mexican Women and Gender
Title
Constructing a Historiography of Mexican Women and Gender.
Creator
Buck Kachaluba, Sarah A.
Abstract/Description
This article outlines the historiographical importance of the International Colloquium of Women's and Gender History in Mexico, particularly in the context of the author's own scholarship, especially her dissertation. It argues for the need for women's and gender history, and for a dialogue, by means of which these separate but related bodies of scholarship can inform the other. It includes a summary of the author's dissertation and its theoretical influences, a review of historical topics...
Show moreThis article outlines the historiographical importance of the International Colloquium of Women's and Gender History in Mexico, particularly in the context of the author's own scholarship, especially her dissertation. It argues for the need for women's and gender history, and for a dialogue, by means of which these separate but related bodies of scholarship can inform the other. It includes a summary of the author's dissertation and its theoretical influences, a review of historical topics discussed at the first two conferences of the International Colloquium of Women's and Gender History, and a discussion of the historiographical implications of such developments.
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Date Issued
2008
Identifier
FSU_migr_library_faculty_publications-0001, 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00508.x
Format
Citation
Classics and Digital Humanities
Title
Classics and Digital Humanities.
Creator
Romano, Allen
Date Issued
2011
Identifier
FSU_migr_clas_faculty_publications-0001
Format
Citation
Bellwether Parish
Title
Bellwether Parish: a history of Trinity Episcopal Church, 1835-1915.
Creator
Willis, Lee
Date Issued
1998
Identifier
FS00000101_00001, 2819518, fsu:89442
Format
E-book
Aggressive Philanthropy
Title
Aggressive Philanthropy: Progressivism, Conservatism, and the William Volker Charities Fund.
Creator
McVicar, Michael J.
Abstract/Description
This essay explores the history of the William Volker Charities Fund, a significant charitable organization founded in 1932 by William Volker, a Kansas City furniture manufacturer. A self-describe progressive, Volker was a prominent Kansas Citian who earned the nickname Mr. Anonymous because he ssecretly gave away most of his personal fortune to create the city's private/public welfare system in the first half of the twentieth century. After Volker's death, Harold W. Luhnow, Volker's nephew,...
Show moreThis essay explores the history of the William Volker Charities Fund, a significant charitable organization founded in 1932 by William Volker, a Kansas City furniture manufacturer. A self-describe progressive, Volker was a prominent Kansas Citian who earned the nickname Mr. Anonymous because he ssecretly gave away most of his personal fortune to create the city's private/public welfare system in the first half of the twentieth century. After Volker's death, Harold W. Luhnow, Volker's nephew, used the fund's resources to move from progressive concerns related to social welfare to support free market, libertarian, and conservative intellectuals after World War II. Before collapsing in the late 1960s, the fund financed the early careers of five Nobel Prize winners; prominent figures in what would become the Religious Right; controversial revisionist historians; and, numerous conservative writers, publishers, and public figures.
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Date Issued
2011
Identifier
FSU_migr_rel_faculty_publications-0007
Format
Citation