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British workers in the war
Title
British workers in the war.
Creator
Kuczynski, Jürgen, Heinemann, M.
Date Issued
1943
Identifier
370512, CFDT370512, ucf:5512
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/370512
THE ROMAN CONQUEST OF BRITAIN
Title
THE ROMAN CONQUEST OF BRITAIN.
Creator
Delaney, Jason, Dandrow, Edward, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
In 43 CE, Britain became part of the Roman Empire and was systematically conquered for nearly half a century. The province had valuable natural resources to plunder, but the decision to invade was based upon more than its material wealth. Prestige through warfare was paramount in Roman society, and that is just what Claudius sought to achieve when he launched his invasion of the island. The Romans pushed all the way into Caledonia before stopping and securing the frontier with the...
Show moreIn 43 CE, Britain became part of the Roman Empire and was systematically conquered for nearly half a century. The province had valuable natural resources to plunder, but the decision to invade was based upon more than its material wealth. Prestige through warfare was paramount in Roman society, and that is just what Claudius sought to achieve when he launched his invasion of the island. The Romans pushed all the way into Caledonia before stopping and securing the frontier with the construction of Hadrian's Wall. Britain had become just another component in the colossal machine that was the Roman Empire.
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Date Issued
2015
Identifier
CFH0004827, ucf:45462
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004827
English economic history: A syllabus for classes and study circles
Title
English economic history: A syllabus for classes and study circles.
Creator
Cole, G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard), Labour Research Department
Date Issued
1922
Identifier
358378, CFDT358378, ucf:5204
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/358378
Resolutions & theses of the fourth congress of the Communist International, held in Moscow, Nov. 7 to Dec. 3, 1922.
Title
Resolutions & theses of the fourth congress of the Communist International, held in Moscow, Nov. 7 to Dec. 3, 1922.
Creator
Communist International Congress (4th : 1922 : Saint Petersburg and Moscow, Russia), Communist Party of Great Britain
Date Issued
1922
Identifier
2656168, CFDT2656168, ucf:4961
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2656168
THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF INTER-WAR BRITISH FASCISTS
Title
THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF INTER-WAR BRITISH FASCISTS.
Creator
Tucci, John, Kallina, Edmund, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Between World Wars I and II, allied forces girded themselves to quash yet another enemy bent on world conquest: fascism. In England, however, the British fascists set about to save what they saw as a dying empire. In an effort to restore Britain's greatness, British fascism held to fascist principles and doctrine to stem the flow of immigration, which fascists saw as darkening the pure British culture. While many of the British fascists strongly admired Nazi Germany's version of fascism, they...
Show moreBetween World Wars I and II, allied forces girded themselves to quash yet another enemy bent on world conquest: fascism. In England, however, the British fascists set about to save what they saw as a dying empire. In an effort to restore Britain's greatness, British fascism held to fascist principles and doctrine to stem the flow of immigration, which fascists saw as darkening the pure British culture. While many of the British fascists strongly admired Nazi Germany's version of fascism, they were unique in that they forged their solutions from social ills that were distinctly British. British fascists were unabashedly anti-Semitic. They feared a Jewish threat to Britain's economy and culture and sought to counter it on every front. History, according to the British fascists, was rife with conspiracies which threatened the established "order of things." Unfortunately, their fears of conspiracy were so fantastic that their rationale was at times clouded and to their detriment. Foremost in the thinking of British fascists, Britain itself and all things British stood paramount to the exclusion of all else. Only an enormous resurgence of British nationalism would serve to regain Britain's proud heritage and future. Widely held principles of British fascism included direct representation in government for all occupations. All Britons would work in the interest of Britain, placing individual interests secondary to the whole of British culture. British fascism called for all Britons to actively involve themselves in the organic body of the British fascist state. Honor, duty, and loyalty would guide all Britons to a heightened sense of nationalism which would enable the individual to flourish within the fascist state. British fascism offered a sense of greatness to the British people. When all Britons embraced the nationalism of British fascism, pride of country, strength of family, honor of the individual, and the greatness of the British Empire all would be restored.
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Date Issued
2005
Identifier
CFE0000794, ucf:46568
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0000794
British labor bids for power: The historic Scarboro Conference of the Trades Union Congress
Title
British labor bids for power: The historic Scarboro Conference of the Trades Union Congress.
Creator
Nearing, Scott
Date Issued
1926
Identifier
369421, CFDT369421, ucf:5444
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/369421
The British labour movement: A syllabus for study classes
Title
The British labour movement: A syllabus for study classes.
Creator
Cole, G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard)
Date Issued
1924
Identifier
369653, CFDT369653, ucf:5466
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/369653
The development of socialism in Great Britain
Title
The development of socialism in Great Britain.
Creator
Socialist Labour Party of Great Britain National Executive Committee
Date Issued
1907
Identifier
2180957, CFDT2180957, ucf:4949
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2180957
British labor's rise to power
Title
British labor's rise to power.
Creator
Laidler, Harry Wellington
Date Issued
1945
Identifier
2100343, CFDT2100343, ucf:4911
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2100343
The next step in Britain, America and Ireland: Speeches and reports, XII Plenum E.C.C.I.
Title
The next step in Britain, America and Ireland: Speeches and reports, XII Plenum E.C.C.I..
Creator
Communist International Executive Committee, Gusev, S.
Date Issued
c1932
Identifier
2100308, CFDT2100308, ucf:4908
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2100308
THE WHITE CHIEF OF NATAL:SIR THEOPHILUS SHEPSTONE AND THE BRITISH NATIVE POLICY INMID-NINETEENTH CENTURY NATAL
Title
THE WHITE CHIEF OF NATAL:SIR THEOPHILUS SHEPSTONE AND THE BRITISH NATIVE POLICY INMID-NINETEENTH CENTURY NATAL.
Creator
Ivey, Jacob, Walker, Ezekiel, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
The native policy of Sir Theophilus Shepstone was influential in the evolution and formation of mid-nineteenth century Natal. From 1845 to the incorporation of Natal into the Union of South Africa in 1910, the native policy of Theophilus Shepstone dictated the organization and control of a native population of well over 100,000. The establishment and makeup of this system was an important institution in not only the history of Natal, but South Africa as a whole. While Shepstone was...
Show moreThe native policy of Sir Theophilus Shepstone was influential in the evolution and formation of mid-nineteenth century Natal. From 1845 to the incorporation of Natal into the Union of South Africa in 1910, the native policy of Theophilus Shepstone dictated the organization and control of a native population of well over 100,000. The establishment and makeup of this system was an important institution in not only the history of Natal, but South Africa as a whole. While Shepstone was significantly impacted by the events of his early life, the main aspect of Shepstone's policy remained the Locations System. This system, created by the Commission for the Locating of the Natives in 1847, would dominate much of Shepstone's early career in Natal, especially the challenges made to the system during the formative years of the native policy. Shepstone's work in Natal would be called into question by several government officials, including Lieutenant-Governor of Natal Benjamin Pine. This conflict with the Natal government would eventually lead to Shepstone's abandonment of the Locations System for what would become known as his "Grand Removal Scheme." While the failure of this scheme would lead to the complete incorporation of the locations system, the longevity of the locations system itself is a product of the astuteness of Shepstone. While the colony of Natal was significantly impacted by economic and social factors, Shepstone remains one of the most influential figures in the evolution of the native policy of British Natal.
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Date Issued
2008
Identifier
CFE0002164, ucf:47509
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0002164
THE CRIME OF COMING HOME: BRITISH CONVICTS RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTATION IN LONDON, 1720-1780
Title
THE CRIME OF COMING HOME: BRITISH CONVICTS RETURNING FROM TRANSPORTATION IN LONDON, 1720-1780.
Creator
Teixeira, Christopher, Beiler, Rosalind, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This thesis examines convicts who were tried for the crime of ÂÂ"returning from transportationÂÂ" at LondonÂÂ's Old Bailey courthouse between 1720 and 1780. While there is plenty of historical scholarship on the tens of thousands of people who endured penal transportation to the American colonies, relatively little attention has been paid to convicts who migrated illegally back to Britain or those who avoided banishment altogether....
Show moreThis thesis examines convicts who were tried for the crime of ÂÂ"returning from transportationÂÂ" at LondonÂÂ's Old Bailey courthouse between 1720 and 1780. While there is plenty of historical scholarship on the tens of thousands of people who endured penal transportation to the American colonies, relatively little attention has been paid to convicts who migrated illegally back to Britain or those who avoided banishment altogether. By examining these convicts, we can gain a better understanding of how transportation worked, how convicts managed to return to Britain, and most importantly, what happened to them there. This thesis argues that convicts resisted transportation by either avoiding it or returning from banishment after obtaining their freedom. However, regardless of how they arrived back in Britain, many failed to reintegrate successfully back into British society, which led to their apprehension and trial. I claim that most convicts avoided the death penalty upon returning and that this encouraged more convicts to resist transportation and return home. The thesis examines the court cases of 132 convicts charged with returning from transportation at the Old Bailey and examines this migration home through the eyes of those who experienced it. First, the thesis focuses on convicts in Britain and demonstrates how negative perceptions of transportation encouraged them to resist banishment. The thesis then highlights how convicts obtained their freedom in the colonies, which gave them the opportunity to return illegally. Finally, the thesis shows that returned felons tried to reintegrate into society by relocating to new cities, leading quiet honest lives, or by returning to a life of crime.
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Date Issued
2010
Identifier
CFE0003105, ucf:48297
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0003105
Chartism and the trades union.
Title
Chartism and the trades union.
Creator
Postgate, Raymond, Labour Research Department
Date Issued
1922
Identifier
357437, CFDT357437, ucf:5184
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/357437
Robert Owen: Social reformer
Title
Robert Owen: Social reformer.
Creator
Hutchins, B. L.
Date Issued
1912
Identifier
331854, CFDT331854, ucf:5168
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/331854
William Lovett, 1800-1877
Title
William Lovett, 1800-1877.
Creator
Hammond, Barbara Bradby, Fabian Society (Great Britain)
Date Issued
1922
Identifier
357439, CFDT357439, ucf:5186
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/357439
Manifesto of the Fourth International to the workers and peasants of India.
Title
Manifesto of the Fourth International to the workers and peasants of India.
Creator
Fourth International, Socialist Workers Party
Date Issued
1942
Identifier
2669153, CFDT2669153, ucf:4996
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2669153
William Morris and the early days of the socialist movement
Title
William Morris and the early days of the socialist movement.
Creator
Glasier, J. Bruce (John Bruce), Morris, May
Date Issued
1921
Identifier
2180958, CFDT2180958, ucf:4950
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/2180958
John Stuart Mill
Title
John Stuart Mill.
Creator
West, Julius
Date Issued
1913
Identifier
332896, CFDT332896, ucf:5173
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/332896
EXPLORING TRANSIENT IDENTITIES: DECONSTRUCTING DEPICTIONS OF GENDER AND IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY IN THE ORIENTAL TRAVEL NARRATIVES OF ENGLISHWOMEN, 1831-1915.
Title
EXPLORING TRANSIENT IDENTITIES: DECONSTRUCTING DEPICTIONS OF GENDER AND IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY IN THE ORIENTAL TRAVEL NARRATIVES OF ENGLISHWOMEN, 1831-1915.
Creator
DeLoach, CarrieAnne, Stockdale, Nancy, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Englishwomen who traveled to the "Orient" in the Victorian era constructed an identity that was British in its bravery, middle-class in its refinement, feminine in appearance and speech and Christian in its intolerance of Oriental heathenism. Studying Victorian female travel narratives that described journeys to the Orient provides an excellent opportunity to reexamine the diaphanous nature of the boundaries of the public/private sphere dichotomy; the relationship between travel, overt...
Show moreEnglishwomen who traveled to the "Orient" in the Victorian era constructed an identity that was British in its bravery, middle-class in its refinement, feminine in appearance and speech and Christian in its intolerance of Oriental heathenism. Studying Victorian female travel narratives that described journeys to the Orient provides an excellent opportunity to reexamine the diaphanous nature of the boundaries of the public/private sphere dichotomy; the relationship between travel, overt nationalism, and gendered constructions of identity, the link between geographic location and self-definition; the power dynamics inherent in information gathering, organization and production. Englishwomen projected gendered identities in their writings, which were both "imperially" masculine and "domestically" feminine, depending on the needs of a particular location and space. The travel narrative itself was also a gendered product that served as both a medium of cultural expression for Victorian women and a tool of restraint, encouraging them to conform to societal expectations to gain limited authority and recognition for their travels even while they embraced the freedom of movement. The terms "imperial masculinity" and "domestic femininity" are employed throughout this analysis to categorize the transient manipulation of character traits associated in Victorian society with middle- and upper-class men abroad in the empire and middle- and upper-class women who remained within their homes in Great Britain. Also stressed is the decision by female travelers to co-assert feminine identities that legitimated their imperial freedom by alluding to equally important components of their transported domestic constructions of self. Contrary to scholarship solely viewing Victorian projections of the feminine ideal as negative, the powers underlining social determinants of gender norms will be treated as "both regulatory and productive." Englishwomen chose to amplify elements of their domestic femininity or newly obtained imperial masculinity depending on the situation encountered during their travels or the message they wished to communicate in their travel narratives. The travel narrative is a valuable tool not only for deconstructing transient constructions of gender, but also for discovering the foundations of race and class ideologies in which the Oriental and the Orient are subjugated to enhance Englishwomen's Orientalist imperial status and position. This thesis is modeled on the structure of the traveling experience. In reviewing first the intellectual expectations preceding travel, the events of travel and finally the emotional reaction to the first two, a metaphoric attempt to better understand meaning through mimicry has been made. Over twenty travel narratives published by Englishwomen of varying social backgrounds, economic classes and motivations for travel between 1830 and World War I were analyzed in conjunction with letters, diaries, fictional works, newspaper articles, advice manuals, travel guides and religious texts in an effort to study the uniquely gendered nature of the Preface in female travel narratives; definitions of "travelers" and "traveling;" the manner in which "new" forms of metaphysical identification formulated what Victorian lady travelers "pre-knew" the "East" to be; the gendered nature in which female travelers portrayed their encounters with the "realities" of travel; and the concept of "disconnect," or the "distance" between a female traveler's expectation and the portrayed "reality" of what she experienced in the Orient.
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Date Issued
2006
Identifier
CFE0001487, ucf:47101
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0001487
'A Room of Their Own': Heritage Tourism and the Challenging of Heteropatriarchal Masculinity in Scottish National Narratives
Title
'A Room of Their Own': Heritage Tourism and the Challenging of Heteropatriarchal Masculinity in Scottish National Narratives.
Creator
O'Neill, Carys, Lyons, Amelia, Beiler, Rosalind, Cheong, Caroline, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
This thesis explores the visibility of women in traditionally masculine Scottish national narratives as evidenced by their physical representation, or lack thereof, in the cultural heritage landscape. Beginning with the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England, a moment cemented in history, literature, and popular memory as the beginning of a Scottish rebirth, this thesis traces the evolution of Scottish national identity and the tropes employed for its assertion to paint a clearer...
Show moreThis thesis explores the visibility of women in traditionally masculine Scottish national narratives as evidenced by their physical representation, or lack thereof, in the cultural heritage landscape. Beginning with the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England, a moment cemented in history, literature, and popular memory as the beginning of a Scottish rebirth, this thesis traces the evolution of Scottish national identity and the tropes employed for its assertion to paint a clearer picture of the power of strategic selectivity and the effects of sacrifice in the process of community definition. Following the transformation of the rugged Celtic Highlander from his pre-Union relegation as an outer barbarian to his post-Union embrace as the epitome of distinction and the embodiment of anti-English, anti-aristocratic sentiment so crucial to the negotiation of a Scottish place in union and empire, this thesis hones in on notions of gender and peformative identity to form the basis for an analysis of twentieth and twenty-first century national heritage dynamics. An innovative spatial study of monuments and memorials in the Scottish capital city of Edinburgh highlights the gendered inequity of memorialization efforts and the impact of limited female visibility on the storytelling potential of the cityscape. Such a perspective not only adds a distinct visual component but also brings my study full circle by exemplifying contemporary discussions on the role of gender in narrative-setting, the sociocultural relevance of monuments and memorials, and the nature of representation in public spaces.
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Date Issued
2019
Identifier
CFE0007846, ucf:52811
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007846