An explanatory study of the motives behind the plans to forge a closer relationship between Western Europe and the African colonies since the Second World War, from the historical perspective, and the success or failure of these plans. This study is not an in-depth institutional analysis of Western European integration or an attempt to examine the purely European aspects of organizations set up to further that goal. It is not a history of post-World War II Europe and Africa except to the extent that the Eurafrican concept had a bearing on events on both continents. Its primary concern is to examine the issues implied in the title, namely to what extent the ideal was shared among the European countries and their prospective partners, the peoples of Africa; whether it was a genuine attempt to create a new and more equal interdependent status, or whether as has often been charged, it was a fig leaf for neocolonialism. / It will also examine the postwar colonial economic development programs for the African colonies; the Strasbourg Plan; the Common Market and its African associated states; economic assistance to Africa from Europe; the impact of association on African regional groupings; the Common Market's impact on African trade; and the British Commonwealth and the European integration movement. Particular emphasis will be placed on the negotiations between the Common Market and Nigeria, and the East African states for associate membership. / This study relied on the documents and publications of the Council of Europe, the Commission of the European Communities, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the various organs of the United Nations, the United States Department of State, and journals and studies. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-06, Section: A, page: 2061. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.

The novels of high life called "Silver-Fork" and those about criminals known as "Newgate" novels dominated fiction in early Victorian Britain. Their enormous popularity eventually incited heated debate regarding authorial responsibility and the tolerable and the admissible in literature. Charles Dickens and, even more broadly, William Makepeace Thackeray, authors of the first rank in the nineteenth-century literary canon, participated in these debates along with novelists writing in these subgenres but little read today like William Harrison Ainsworth, Catherine Frances Gore, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton. / This study argues that to understand the sociohistorical significance of the rise and fall of the Silver-Fork and the Newgate phenomena in popular culture during the 1820s and 1830s, one must attend to the increasing consolidation of middle class ethics in these years. The decline of the Silver-Fork and Newgate novels was mainly the consequence of widespread middle-class hostility toward this popular literature of high life and crime that failed to embody and confirm middle-class moral perspective. / It was Thackeray who, reflecting the growing intolerance of the Victorian middle class for both Silver-Fork and Newgate novels, attempted to correct the false, even hazardous, view of reality implied in these two popular forms. A major argument in this study is that, through his efforts to disrupt the Silver-Fork and Newgate manner in Victorian fiction, Thackeray contributed much in establishing, solidifying, and perpetuating middle-class ideology in Victorian literature. / Adopting a social and historical approach, this study describes the effects of early Victorian middle-class ideology on literary taste through an analysis of the overt struggle between Silver-Fork and Newgate novelists, and Thackeray. By doing so, it aims to open a new perspective on such issues in Victorian literature as social class, popularity, and acceptability. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-04, Section: A, page: 1632. / Major Professor: John Fenstermaker. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1996.

<p> The purpose of this research is to explore the shifts in the rhetoric utilized by the European Far-Right political parties in response to terror attacks. The subjects of study are the National Front and Alternative for Germany within France and Germany respectively with both states having experienced attacks by Muslim terrorists within recent years. This study was conducted through the employment of Image Theory through a content analysis, specifically through the lens of the Barbarian and Enemy Images and if they can be observed in either party&rsquo;s rhetoric. This shift in rhetoric can be seen expressed by both parties as they acted and reacted through their policy platforms over the years of observation.</p><p>

This thesis accompanies the digital edition of the 'Crónica particular de San Fernando', and includes a rationale for and an explanation of many of the implications of the decisions taken in the preparation of this edition. The edition is used as a case study for the digital editing of medieval prose in Castilian at the present time. To this end, there is an in-depth examination of the history, context and current situation of the digital editing of medieval texts, focussing specifically on prose, and in particular prose in Castilian. The text and contact of the Crónica particular de San Fernando are also studied, to inform the preparation of its digital edition. My central thesis is that the decisions made when preparing a digital edition should take into account the perceived needs of edition users, including both contemporary users and, as far as possible, future users. These decisions should be informed by the nature of the text itself, its context, and transmission, as these will affect how and by whom the edition is used. They should also be informed by an understanding of how digital editions differ from their print counterparts, in both preparation and usage.

<p> This work explores the development, maintenance, and fracture or transformation of the collective identity that defined the British upper class in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the historical/cultural narratives that developed around the fracture of that collective identity, and on the affect that both identity fracture and narratives exercised on British society, culture, and politics during and after the First World War. We examine the process by which that collective identity was transmitted from generation to generation, examine the damage done to upper class collective identity during and in the wake of WW I, and explore the expression of that damaged identity in the development and influence of historical/cultural narratives generally identified as Lost Generation narratives. </p><p> The theoretical framework used in this dissertation is based on the work of a group of sociologists that includes Alberto Melucci, Manuel Castells, Harold Kerbo, John Ogbu, Jeffrey Alexander, Ron Eyerman, and Kai Erikson. Their analyses are grounded in Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory&mdash;a body of theory that seeks to describe the formation, maintenance, and transformation of both individual and collective identities. The historical analysis used in this effort involves the work of a range of historians and theoreticians. These include historians who focus on British social/cultural history and/or on the history of Britain during the First World War (e.g. J.M. Winter, David Cannadine, Samuel Hynes, Lawrence James, Paul Fussell, and Angela Lambert) as well as historians and theoreticians who focus on literary interpretation and on the use of narrative in history (e.g. Keith Jenkins, Hayden White, Roland Barthes, and Michel Foucault). The historical analysis includes research in primary sources from historical actors discussed in the dissertation. These include diaires, letters, and memoirs by Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, Seigfried Sassoon, and JRR Tolkien; letters and expedition journals of George Mallory; and JRR Tolkien's working notebooks regarding the development of his fictional works.</p><p>

<p>?The Canadian News is Unimportant? analyzes the anomaly of Canada in the British Empire in the nineteenth century by seeking to understand the role that Canada played in the production of empire abroad and understanding of empire in the metropole. The study is situated between the periods of the American Civil and the Canadian confederation movement and explores metropolitan newspapers and parliamentary debates to develop the themes of imagined identities, paternalistic language, and rhetoric of empire. Such explorations illustrate just how difficult it would become for the British metropole to reconcile their constructed image of a dependent and child-like colony with the reality of increasing Canadian autonomy. This study expands imperial historiography by showing just how important the Canadian news was in the constructions of the British empire in the nineteenth century.

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