Author: Michael Rowe File Type: pdf Napoleons contribution to Germanys development was immense. Under his hegemony, the millennium-old Holy Roman Empire dissolved, paving the way for a new order. Nowhere was the transformation more profound than in the Rhineland. Based upon an extensive range of German and French archival sources, this book locates the Napoleonic episode in this region within a broader chronological framework, encompassing the Old Regime and Restoration. It analyses not only politics, but also culture, identity, religion, society, institutions and economics. It reassesses in turn the legacy bequeathed by the Old Regime, the struggle between Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the 1790s, Napoleons attempts to integrate the German-speaking Rhineland into the French Empire, the transition to Prussian rule, and the subsequent struggles that ultimately helped determine whether Germany would follow its own Sonderweg or the path of its western neighbours. **Review ...an insightful political, economic, and cultural history of the Rhineland during a very turbulent period in German history...This is an important book that should be considered a must read for historians of Germany. John G. Gagliardo, Boston University, American Historical Review A work of broad scope that crosses sacrosanct chronological frontiers and navigates two national historiographies that have rarely been mastered by a single individual. | H-France An excellent and challenging work [...] useful reading for anyone interested in Napoleonic Germany (or Napoleonic Europe, more broadly), or in the development of political life in nineteenth-century central Europe. H-GERMAN The author of this study has written an excellent book about a crucial period of European history in one of the most important regions in the Western world. The Historian Rowe has crafted a carefully researched argument that, in unraveling the tangled legacy of transnational political cultures, demonstrates in measured and sensible terms how Rhenish society absorbed and adapted key elements of western European citizenship ideals. His scholarship not only provides an important regional supplement to Michael Broers and isser Wolochs broader interpretations of Napoleonic Europe but also presents to German specialists a thesis of continuity that does justice to the Old Regime, Napoleonic and Restoration eras. Journal of Modern History James M. Brophy, University of Delaware Book Description Napoleons contribution to Germanys development was immense and nowhere was the transformation more profound than in the Rhineland. From Reich to State is based upon an extensive range of German and French archival sources, locating the Napoleonic episode in this region within a broader chronological framework encompassing the Old Regime and Restoration. It analyses not only politics, but also culture, identity, religion, society, institutions and economics. This is a pioneering examination of Napoleons impact on Germany, written in a clear and accessible style.

Author: Kim Tolley File Type: pdf One of the most significant trends in American higher education over the last decade has been the shift in faculty employment from tenured to contingent. Now upwards of 75% of faculty jobs are non-tenure track two decades ago that figure was 25%. One of the results of this shiftalong with the related degradation of pay, benefits, and working conditionshas been a new push to unionize adjunct professors, spawning a national labor movement. Professors in the Gig Economy is the first book to address the causes, processes, and outcomes of these efforts. Kim Tolley brings together scholars of education, labor history, economics, religious studies, and law, all of whom have been involved with unionization at public and private colleges and universities. Their essays and case studies address the following questions Why have colleges and universities come to rely so heavily on contingent faculty? How have federal and state laws influenced efforts to unionize? What happens after unionizationhow has collective bargaining affected institutional policies, shared governance, and relations between part-time and full-time faculty? And finally, how have unionization efforts shaped the teaching and learning that happens on campus? Bringing substantial research and historical context to bear on the cost and benefit questions of contingent labor on campus, Professors in the Gig Economy will resonate with general readers, scholars, students, higher education professionals, and faculty interested in unionization. Contributors A. J. Angulo, Timothy Reese Cain, Elizabeth K. Davenport, Marianne Delaporte, Tom DePaola, Kristen Edwards, Luke Elliott-Negri, Kim Geron, Lorenzo Giachetti, Shawn Gilmore, Adrianna Kezar, Joseph A. McCartin, Gretchen M. Reevy, Gregory M. Saltzman, Kim Tolley, Nicholas M. Wertsch **Review A timely and important book on the dramatic rise in contingent faculty labor, the broader impact it is having on institutions of higher learning, and the union organizing responses of college faculty, Professors in the Gig Economy should receive the attention of academics, policymakers, and the general public. (Stephen Brier, The Graduate Center, CUNY, coauthor of Austerity Blues Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education) Professors in the Gig Economy is a call to action. By way of data, historiography, case research, and anecdote, the authors demonstrate the challenges that exist for adjunct faculty and for academe. For those of us who care about academe and those who work in it, the book offers the ingredients to think about what the correct recipe should be for solving a critical problem. (William G. Tierney, Pullias Center for Higher Education, University of Southern California, editor of Rethinking Education and Poverty) Kim Tolley brings together a group of superb scholars across disciplinary perspectives to discuss one of the most important issues in the ever-shifting world of academe adjunct faculty members. For far too long, adjunct faculty have been ignored, kicked to the side, and forgotten, even as their ranks increase. Professors in the Gig Economy places them front and center and explores their history and role in the academy. (Marybeth Gasman, University of Pennsylvania, coauthor of Educating a Diverse Nation Lessons from Minority-Serving Institutions) Professors in the Gig Economy has brought together a superb scholarly team whose respective chapters analyze how contingent faculty have come to be center stage in American higher education. They play a role that will increase in significance, size, and complexityand up to now has been sorely understudied or ignored. This anthology provides a much-needed multidisciplinary exploration of unionization and other issues dealing with the academic profession as part of a significant change in the nations institutions and economy. (John R. Thelin, University of Kentucky, author of A History of American Higher Education) Overreliance on adjunct faculty presents the greatest challenge to academic freedom and educational quality today. Through illustrative case studies, these essential and informative essays demonstrate how unionization can play a pivotal part in addressing the problem, while uniquely highlighting how tenure-track professors and adjuncts can and do work successfully together. (Henry Reichman, First Vice-President and Chair, Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, American Association of University Professors) Professors in the Gig Economy is a compelling collection of histories and case studies of adjunct faculty unionization. This book is a valuable resource and essential reading for anyone interested in the new faculty majority that defines the new higher education economy. (Gary Rhoades, University of Arizona, author of Managed Professionals Unionized Faculty and Restructuring Academic Labor) About the Author Kim Tolley is a professor of education at Notre Dame de Namur University. She is the author of Heading South to Teach The World of Susan Nye Hutchison, 18151845 and The Science Education of American Girls A Historical Perspective.