Keywords
Tampa; World War II; Shipyard; Shipbuilding
Abstract
With the Great Depression on one side and prosperity on the other, historians of World War II have debated its effects on American society and have asked if it represented a watershed moment. While the war clearly disrupted American life and opened new opportunities for many, its role as a transformative event remains contested. This examination of the Tampa shipyards utilizes the theoretical and methodological lenses of social history to facilitate an analysis based on a chronological approach. This analysis centers on the situation in Tampa before, during, and after World War II, and in doing so it assesses the historiographical question of the existence of watershed moments, at a micro-scale level, on the shipyards within Tampa, Florida, during World War II.
Completion Date
2023
Semester
Fall
Committee Chair
Lester, Connie
Degree
Master of Arts (M.A.)
College
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
History
Degree Program
History
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
DP0028028
URL
https://purls.library.ucf.edu/go/DP0028028
Language
English
Release Date
December 2023
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Campus Location
Orlando (Main) Campus
STARS Citation
Farley, Connor E., "War on the Bay: Determining the Existence of Watershed Moments within the Shipyards in Tampa, Florida during World War II" (2023). Graduate Thesis and Dissertation 2023-2024. 11.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd2023/11