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Despotism on the march.
Title
Despotism on the march.
Creator
Petersen, Arnold
Date Issued
1951
Identifier
2660279, CFDT2660279, ucf:4982
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2660279
Germany then and now
Title
Germany then and now.
Creator
Taylor, Alonzo Englebert
Date Issued
1941
Identifier
363261, CFDT363261, ucf:5286
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/363261
"I Play to Beat the Machine": Masculinity and the Video Game Industry in the United States
Title
"I Play to Beat the Machine": Masculinity and the Video Game Industry in the United States.
Creator
McDivitt, Anne, Foster, Amy, Cassanello, Robert, Solonari, Vladimir, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This thesis examines the video game industry within the United States from the first game that was created in 1958 until the shift to Japanese dominance of the industry in 1985, and how white, middle class masculinity was reflected through the sphere of video gaming. The first section examines the projections of white, middle class masculinity in U.S. culture and how that affected the types of video games that the developers created. The second section examines reflections of this masculine...
Show moreThis thesis examines the video game industry within the United States from the first game that was created in 1958 until the shift to Japanese dominance of the industry in 1985, and how white, middle class masculinity was reflected through the sphere of video gaming. The first section examines the projections of white, middle class masculinity in U.S. culture and how that affected the types of video games that the developers created. The second section examines reflections of this masculine culture that surrounded video gaming in the 1970s and 1980s in the developers, gamers, and the media, while demonstrating how the masculine realm of video gaming was constructed. Lastly, a shift occurred after the 1980 release of Pac-Man, which led to a larger number of women gamers and developers, as well as an industry that embraced a broader audience. It concludes with the crash of the video game industry within the United States in 1983, which allowed Japanese video game companies to gain dominance in video gaming worldwide instead of the U.S. companies, such as Atari.
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Date Issued
2013
Identifier
CFE0004889, ucf:49645
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004889
ANOTHER FORGOTTEN ARMY: THE FRENCH EXPEDITIONARY CORPS IN ITALY,1943-1944
Title
ANOTHER FORGOTTEN ARMY: THE FRENCH EXPEDITIONARY CORPS IN ITALY,1943-1944.
Creator
White, Brook, Kallina, Edmund, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The French Expeditionary Corps that fought in Italy during World War II was a French army, but that description must be qualified. Therefore this thesis asks two questions: how did France manage to send the equivalent of an army to Italy if French military leadership in 1943 had no direct access to French manpower resources; and the most important question since it is unique to the historical debate, why were the troops that were sent to Italy so effective once there when compared to the 1940...
Show moreThe French Expeditionary Corps that fought in Italy during World War II was a French army, but that description must be qualified. Therefore this thesis asks two questions: how did France manage to send the equivalent of an army to Italy if French military leadership in 1943 had no direct access to French manpower resources; and the most important question since it is unique to the historical debate, why were the troops that were sent to Italy so effective once there when compared to the 1940 French army? To answer the first question, it was a French colonial army – soldiers mainly from Africa – that enabled France to send an army to Italy. The second question was not so easily addressed and is actually composed of two parts: current scholarship finds that at the tactical level French troops of 1940 no less capable than the troops in Italy, but more importantly it was the French military leadership's willingness to expend the lives of their colonial solders with little regard that allowed the French Expeditionary Corps to allow the United States Fifth Army to enter Rome just days before the Allied invasion of Normandy. And in order to understand why the French military was willing to expend the lives of its African soldiers, this thesis also had to examine the French colonial system dating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Finally, this paper explores the different components of leadership that each army, which were African (primarily from North Africa and French West Africa) and metropolitan (mostly from European France), used to lead and direct their men. Thus, this study is more than just a pure military history. It is also a cultural and social history of France in relation to its colonies.
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Date Issued
2008
Identifier
CFE0002435, ucf:47713
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002435
'The Tourist Soldier': Veterans Remember the American Occupation of Germany, 1950-1955
Title
'The Tourist Soldier': Veterans Remember the American Occupation of Germany, 1950-1955.
Creator
Vance, Meghan, Lindsay, Anne, Lyons, Amelia, Beiler, Rosalind, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Studies of postwar Germany, from 1945-1955, have concentrated on the American influence as a military occupier, the development of German reconstruction and national identity, and memory of this period from the German perspective. Within the memory analyses, firsthand accounts have been analyzed to understand the perspectives of Germans living through the postwar period. Absent from this historiography is an account of American memories and firsthand perspectives of the occupation,...
Show moreStudies of postwar Germany, from 1945-1955, have concentrated on the American influence as a military occupier, the development of German reconstruction and national identity, and memory of this period from the German perspective. Within the memory analyses, firsthand accounts have been analyzed to understand the perspectives of Germans living through the postwar period. Absent from this historiography is an account of American memories and firsthand perspectives of the occupation, particularly during the 1950-1955 period. This thesis employs oral histories of American veterans stationed in postwar Germany, American propaganda and popular cultural mediums during the early 1950s, and modern historiographical trends to provide an understanding of how Americans remember the German postwar decade. American veterans remembered this period, and their encounters with local Germans, as a positive experience. These positive memories were mediated by 1950s Cold War rhetoric and propaganda and were subsequently predicated upon the men's perspective as occupying soldiers. Their recollections align with American popular memory delineating the military occupation as ending in 1949 upon the creation of the Federal Republic of Germany, therefore overshadowing the 1950-1955 period of occupation. The ways in which Americans remember the postwar occupation in Germany, particularly from 1950-1955, inform broader memory and historical narrative trends of this era.
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Date Issued
2015
Identifier
CFE0005732, ucf:50113
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005732
Orlando Florida
Title
Orlando Florida.
Creator
PALMM (Project)
Abstract / Description
Pictures and text depicting Orlando c.1913.
Date Issued
1913
Identifier
AAB6377QF00001/18/200508/04/200516221BfamIa D0QF, FIPS12095, FHP C CF 2005-01-19, FCLA url 20050220xOCLC, 58808752, CF00001692, 2580605, ucf:17278
Format
E-book
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/tc/fhp/CF00001692.jpg