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Race, Class and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
20 essays reprinted from the Journal of the History of Ideas which contribute to an understanding of how the concepts of race, class and sex were viewed in the 19th century.

Race, Gender, and Rank
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
Essays examining transformations in perceptions of race, gender and rank from the 15th to the 19th centuries.

Radical Nostalgia:
A detailed history of the commemorations of US activist involvement in the Spanish Civil War, based on a combination of archival and ethnographic evidence.

Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
A provocative investigation into the root causes of the Ethiopian political upheavals in the second half of the twentieth century.

Rain of Years:
This work argues that Great Expectations best exemplifies Charles Dickens' worldview, and brings together the various themes he addresses in all his works.

Rationality and Happiness
Series: Rochester Studies in Philosophy
This volume explores the relationship between rationality and happiness from ancient Greek philosophy to early Latin medieval philosophy.

Reformation and the German Territorial State
Series: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
A richly documented study of the interrelation between religious reformation and territorial state-building in the German region of upper Franconia from the later Middle Ages through the Confessional era.

Religion and the Origins of the German Enlightenment
Series: Rochester Studies in Philosophy
Analysis of the close relationship between religion and secular learning in the works of one of the central figures of the early German Enlightenment, the jurist and philosopher Christian Thomasius (1655-1728).

Renaissance Essays
Series: Library of the History of Ideas

Renaissance Essays
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
Fifteen classic essays illuminate a broad cross-section of the intellectual history of the Renaissance.

Renaissance Essays II
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
A second collection of essays on renaissance themes from JHI.

Renaissance Essays II (paperback edition)
Series: Library of the History of Ideas
A second collection of essays on renaissance themes from JHI.

Repositioning North American Migration History
Series: Studies in Comparative History
An in-depth look at trends in North American internal migration.

Representing Bushmen
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
A detailed and compelling volume that contributes significantly to current trends in post-apartheid scholarship.

Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Explores the influence of anthropological theories, travel literature, psychology, and other intellectual trends on the perception of non-Western music and elucidates the roots of today's field of ethnomusicology.

The Republic of Genius
Taylor analyzes Nietzsche's thoughts on the state, culture and education.

Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919-1930:
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
This book examines the Rockefeller Foundation's attempts to introduce the laboratory sciences, particularly biochemistry, into the Edinburgh medical world of the 1920s.

The Rosary Cantoral
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Unlocks the secrets behind the images and music of an important Spanish musical manuscript compiled for a brotherhood of suspected heretics ca. 1500.

The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714:
Drawing upon a myriad of primary and secondary historical sources, The Royal Doctors: Medical Personnel at the Tudor and Stuart Courts investigates the influential individuals who attended England's most important patients during a pivotal epoch in the evolution of the state and the medical profession.

Russian Theoretical Thought in Music (paperback edition)
Offers readers new ways of conceptualizing music and new insights into music created in Russia.

Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the life and work of the esteemed "ultra-modern" American composer and pioneering folk music activist (1901-53).