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"This book examines the ideas of the Founders with regard to establishing a national university and what those ideas say about their understanding of America. It offers the first study on the idea of a national university and how the Founders understood it as an important feature in an educational system that would sustain the American experiment in democracy. Their ideas about education suggest that shaping the American mind is essential to the success of the Constitution and that this is something that future generations would need to continue to do"--

AbstractBased on the combination of colonial archives and the analysis of several complaints published in Senegalese newspapers, this article sheds light on the daily compulsory reality experienced by local populations with regards to forced labor in colonial Senegal (1920s–1940s). In contrast to analyses approaching forced labor systems through the study of colonial bureaucratic routines, this article studies the reactions of local populations and the consequences for colonial labor policies. I introduce the notion of resilience in order to overcome the pitfalls of the resistance paradigm and bring new insight into attitudes of distance, refusal, and adaptation used by local populations as methods to "absorb the shock" of everyday colonial coercion. More broadly, this analysis leads us to interrogate the limits and fragility of the colonial enterprise, recalling that the colonial state was not an almighty administration and that it was, above all, based on abiding adaptations and empirical decisions.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1 The Working Lives of Migrant Women -- Finding employment in a changing labour market -- Women talking about employment, work and life -- Migrant origins -- Reading the text: stories of change and continuity -- Individual stories and world events: talk, memories and recollections -- The organization of the book -- 2 Moving Stories: Journeys to the UK -- Leaving Latvia -- 'Nursing's what in those days a lot of ladies did' -- Twice migrants: India, East Africa and the UK -- Temporary migration -- 'A little bit of dirty business': moving within Europe -- Seeking asylum -- 3 Making Things: Textiles, Toys, Shirts, Seat Covers and Engines -- Spinning and weaving in the 1940s -- 'That solder stinks': on the line in the late 1940s -- Manufacturing work at home -- Sewing seat covers: working for Ford -- 'Hard to touch meat': providing airline meals -- 'The smell there, the plastic': on the line -- On the blue shift: working for BMW -- 4 Waged Domestic Work: Cleaning, Catering and Childcare -- 'Now nobody wants to do the cheap work': forms of domestic service -- Scrub the dishes and polish the floors: hospital domestic labour -- 'I didn't come to England to be a slave': working as an au pair -- 'The guests, they don't see us': agency work in hotels -- 5 Body Work: Nursing, Occupational Therapy and Caring for the British -- 'We did clean then': nursing as the NHS was established -- 'We thought we were doing the SRN': nurses from the Caribbean -- 'It was discrimination in a very subtle way': Indian nurses -- 'It's a good thing to be kept on your toes' -- 'I've never thought to call myself as an immigrant': the NHS and travel opportunities -- 'Go for nursing and get a job': nursing in three countries.

Early German Romanticism sought to respond to a comprehensive sense of spiritual crisis that characterised the late eighteenth century. The study demonstrates how the Romantics sought to bring together the new post-Kantian idealist philosophy with the inheritance of the realist Platonic-Christian tradition. With idealism they continued to champion the individual, while from Platonism they took the notion that all reality, including the self, participated in absolute being. This insight was expressed, not in the language of theology or philosophy, but through aesthetics, which recognised the potentiality of all creation, including artistic creation, to disclose the divine. In explicating the religious vision of Romanticism, this study offers a new historical appreciation of the movement, and furthermore demonstrates its importance for our understanding of religion today

Interpretation of almost all the eponyms of Khazar King Joseph's ethnic genealogy causes considerable difficulties. In this regard, O.A.Mudrak's etymologization of these eponyms as well as the suggested principle of the mechanism of ethnic genealogy is of great interest. According to this researcher, all groups of the Khazar Khaganate population are presented in it, and presentation of their eponyms is given from west to east. However, this point of view provokes the following objections. Firstly, the given principle is clearly excessive for the letter of King Joseph, since all the main groups of the population of the Khazar Khaganate are presented in his list of the tributaries. Secondly, if the principle of the mechanism of O.A.Mudrak's genealogy were observed, the eponym Khazar would not be in the seventh place, but in the first, or at least in the second place, after the descendants of the western Turks (they were probably Burtas). It follows that this genealogy is based on a quite different principle. We have proved a different interpretation of its mechanism: seniority of the eponyms presented in the genealogy is related to the degree of antiquity of the corresponding peoples, and some of these peoples had vanished into history by the 10th century. In the genealogy, these peoples might be, for example, the Huns, Goths or Avars. Of considerable interest is the fact that the eponym Bersil traces its origin to the proto-Nakh *borze-lvej "wolf". In our opinion, this etymology can be supported by the following argument: one of the names of Khazaria - Arkan - can be etymologized according to the ancient Iranian languages as "wolves" (or "Wolves' country", cf. Scythian-Sarmatian varka "wolf"). This fact allows us to consider O.A. Mudrak's etymology of the ethnonym Bersil as very promising. Keywords : Khazar king Joseph's letter, ethnic genealogy, Khazar Khaganate, O.A. Mudrak.

Seven leading specialists present chapters devoted to key themes in Soviet and post-Soviet Russian politics. Those themes include: the personal versus the institutional in the political process; legitimacy and legitimation; and change and collapse of a mono-organisational society. While the book focuses on these major themes, individual chapters deal with wide-ranging and even unusual cases: Graeme Gill analyses the legitimating functions of Moscow's architecture, Sheila Fitzpatrick uses the archives to draw a picture of Stalin "the boss" dealing with his closest colleagues, Eugene Huskey provides a detailed description of post-Soviet Russian pantouflage, and Archie Brown and Peter Reddaway present their different takes on Gorbachev and the Soviet collapse. Stephen Fortescue provides an overview of policy-making processes from Lenin and Putin, and Leslie Holmes updates the concept of goal-rational legitimacy."--

In an attempt to tackle the pervasive problem of online copyright infringement, the Federal Parliament of Australia inserted s 115A into the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) in 2015. Section 115A essentially permits the Federal Court of Australia to order an Internet Service Provider to block access to an overseas website that has the primary purpose of infringing, or facilitating the infringement of, copyright. This article provides readers with an in-depth summary of the origins, legal context and scope of s 115A followed by an analysis of the way that it has been applied in the four cases to date. It also considers the accuracy of the two main criticisms of s 115A — that it can be too easily circumvented and that it is an improper substitute for the improved delivery of licensed copyright material to Australian consumers. It argues that copyright owners, rather than ISPs, will likely have to bear the costs of any injunction granted under s 115A and that the Federal Court of Australia has been alert to the need to balance a variety of interests in website blocking applications. This article concludes that although some criticisms of s 115A are justified, website blocking still has a legitimate role in reducing online copyright infringement in Australia.

The European Union has prioritised the pursuit of innovation-based growth and targeting of resources to promote research and development, but performance on innovation remains weak. With the lack of results comes fatigue, waning interest and mounting criticism about policy. Should the EU abandon its ambition to become the most innovative region in the world? We examine EU member state research and innovation policies. We assess whether the deployment of innovation policy instruments in EU countries matches their innovation capacity performance relative to other EU countries. We find a relative homogeneity of policy mixes in EU countries, despite the fairly wide and stable differences in their innovation capacities. Our analysis therefore provides a rationale for a more comprehensive review of innovation policy mixes to assess their adequacy in addressing countryspecific innovation challenges.