The push of the past half century to redefine the American canon through the incorporation of writers representative of America's heterogeneousness has given voice to a range of marginalized writers. This movement, predicated on the belief that American society was never as unified as its early leaders would have us believe, has overstated what it sought to challenge : the unitedness of early Americans. Casting the leaders of the Early Republic as in complete accord, such critical readings negate the significant differences that existed and the pains necessary to present something akin to national unity and identity. It is my aim to show that this unity came about through a constructed rhetoric meant to unify the citizens in colonial America and the Early Republic. In this thesis, I will examine three modes of this rhetoric : American Exceptionalism, the American Enlightenment, and the movements supporting a mono-dialectal view of American English. / by Joel Wilson. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / System requirements: Adobe Reader.

Yuen Wai Sze. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-124). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.i / 摘要 --- p.iii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.iv / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.v / TABLES --- p.vi / FIGURES --- p.vii / APPENDICES --- p.vii / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.6 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY --- p.13 / Chapter 3.1 --- Event Study Methodology --- p.13 / Chapter 3.2 --- Cross-Sectional Regression Models --- p.20 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- DATA DESCRIPTION OF THE JUNE 4th INCIDENT --- p.26 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- DATA DESCRIPTION OF THE SIGNING OF CEPA --- p.31 / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE JUNE 4th INCIDENT --- p.35 / Chapter 6.1 --- Background --- p.35 / Chapter 6.2 --- Event Study Results --- p.36 / Chapter 6.3 --- Regression Results --- p.38 / Chapter CHAPTER 7 --- EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE SIGNING OF CEPA --- p.45 / Chapter 7.1 --- Background --- p.45 / Chapter 7.2 --- Event Study Results --- p.46 / Chapter 7.3 --- Regression Results --- p.49 / Chapter 7.4 --- Robustness Test --- p.57 / Chapter CHAPTER 8 --- CONCLUSION --- p.59 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.119

This thesis argues that in the wake of the Decembrist Revolt in Russia in 1825, the British Foreign Office was forced to address the tension between two conceptions of stability-one domestic and one international. It contends that the aristocratic ethos of the British diplomatic corps both magnified the fragile social condition of the Russian Empire and organized the political response which subordinated this concern to the international equilibrium of Europe. Ambassadors such as Lord Strangford and Edward Cromwell Disbrowe helped interpret the events of the Decembrist conspiracy while stationed in St. Petersburg and reported back to their Foreign Secretary, George Canning, who used the revolt as an attempt to realign British interests with Russia. In the end, elite Britons chose to protect the international balance of power in post-Napoleonic Europe instead of the traditional social hierarchies believed to be under siege in Russia. / by Kenneth Posner. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.