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Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes
(Cornell University Press, 2017)Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography that serves to demystify the powerful elements that make possible the miniaturization of electronics, green energy and medical technologies, and essential telecommunications ... -
Reappraisals: Shifting Alignments in Postwar Critical Theory
(Cornell University Press, 1991)Reappraisals is a provocative account of the development of modern critical theory in Germany and the United States. Focusing on the period since World War II, Peter Uwe Hohendahl explores key debates on the function of ... -
Reasons of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government
(Cornell University Press, 1988)In this lucid and theoretically sophisticated book, G. John Ikenberry focuses on the oil price shocks of 1973–74 and 1979, which placed extraordinary new burdens on governments worldwide and particularly on that of the ... -
Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making
(Cornell University Press, 2021)By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law highlights how the sharia, when attached to constitutional commitments, is ... -
Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955
(Cornell University Press, 2021)In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955, Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of Chinese power consumption as electrical industries developed during seven decades of revolution and warfare. Tan traces ... -
Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America
(Cornell University Press, 2021-10-15)In Red Dynamite, Carl R. Weinberg argues that creationism's tenacious hold on American public life depended on culture-war politics inextricably embedded in religion. Many Christian conservatives were convinced that ... -
Reimagining Democracy: Lessons in Deliberative Democracy from the Irish Front Line
(Cornell University Press, 2019)The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy ... -
Repentance for the Holocaust: Lessons from Jewish Thought for Confronting the German Past
(Cornell University Press, 2017-08-15)In Repentance for the Holocaust, C. K. Martin Chung develops the biblical idea of “turning” (tshuvah) into a conceptual framework to analyze a particular area of contemporary German history, commonly referred to as ... -
Research as Development: Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Collaboration in Sri Lanka
(Cornell University Press, 2019)In Research as Development, Salla Sariola and Bob Simpson show how international collaboration operates in a setting that is typically portrayed as "resource-poor" and "scientifically lagging." Based on their long-term ... -
Research Guide to the Russian and Soviet Censuses
(Cornell University Press, 1987)Taken together, the Russian census of 1897 and the Soviet censuses of 1926, 1959, 1970, and 1979 constitute the largest collection of empirical data available on that country, but until the publication of this book in 1986, ... -
Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism
(Cornell University Press, 2020)Revolution Goes East is an intellectual history that applies a novel global perspective to the classic story of the rise of communism and the various reactions it provoked in Imperial Japan. Tatiana Linkhoeva demonstrates ... -
Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1930
(Cornell University Press, 1997)Using archival materials never previously accessible to Western scholars, Michael David-Fox analyzes Bolshevik Party educational and research initiatives in higher learning after 1917. His fresh consideration of the era ... -
Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938
(Cornell University Press, 2000)During the Russian Revolution and Civil War, amateur theater groups sprang up in cities across the country. Workers, peasants, students, soldiers, and sailors provided entertainment ranging from improvisations to gymnastics ... -
Rewolucja: Russian Poland, 1904–1908
(Cornell University Press, 1995)The revolution of 1905 in the Russian-ruled Kingdom of Poland marked the consolidation of major new influences on the political scene. As he examines the emergence of a mass political culture in Poland, Robert E. Blobaum ... -
Ritual Irony: Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides
(Cornell University Press, 1985)Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Bacchae. Examining Euripides' representation of sacrificial ritual against the ... -
Ruling Capital: Emerging Markets and the Reregulation of Cross-Border Finance
(Cornell University Press, 2014)In Ruling Capital, Kevin P. Gallagher demonstrates how several emerging market and developing countries (EMDs) managed to reregulate cross-border financial flows in the wake of the global financial crisis, despite the ... -
Russian Formalism: A Metapoetics
(Cornell University Press, 1984)Russian Formalism, one of the twentieth century's most important movements in literary criticism, has received far less attention than most of its rivals. Examining Formalism in light of more recent developments in literary ... -
Scandal and Democracy: Media Politics in Indonesia
(Cornell University Press, 2019)Successful transitions to enduring democracy are both difficult and rare. In Scandal and Democracy, Mary E. McCoy explores how newly democratizing nations can avoid reverting to authoritarian solutions in response to the ... -
Scenes of Sympathy: Identity and Representation in Victorian Fiction
(Cornell University Press, 2000)In Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction both reveal and unsettle Victorian ideologies of identity. Situating these representations within the context of Victorian ... -
Secession and Security: Explaining State Strategy against Separatists
(Cornell University Press, 2017)In Secession and Security, Ahsan I. Butt argues that states rather than separatists determine whether a secessionist struggle will be peaceful, violent, or genocidal. He investigates the strategies, ranging from negotiated ...
