Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Roman Literary Culture
From Plautus to Macrobius
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Scholars of ancient literature have often focused on the works and lives of major authors rather than on such questions as how these works were produced and who read them. In Roman Literary Culture, Elaine Fantham fills that void by examining the changing social and historical context of literary...
Freedom Time
The Poetics and Politics of Black Experimental Writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Standard literary criticism tends to either ignore or downplay the unorthodox tradition of black experimental writing that emerged in the wake of protests against colonization and Jim Crow–era segregation. Histories of African American literature likewise have a hard time accounting for the distinctiveness...
The Notorious Mrs. Clem
Murder and Money in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In September 1868, the remains of Jacob and Nancy Jane Young were found lying near the banks of Indiana’s White River. It was a gruesome scene. Part of Jacob’s face had been blown off, apparently by the shotgun that lay a few feet away. Spiders and black beetles crawled over his wound. Smoke rose...
by Edward A. Bell
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
In A Parent's Guide to Children's Medicines, an experienced pediatric pharmacist answers questions about how to give safe and effective medications to children. Whether medicine is used to treat asthma or ear infections, medicine is often necessary and can be life saving—yet many parents worry about...
Higher Education and Silicon Valley
Connected but Conflicted
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Universities and colleges often operate between two worlds: higher education and economic systems. With a mission rooted in research, teaching, and public service, institutions of higher learning are also economic drivers in their regions, under increasing pressure to provide skilled workers to local...
The Market Imperative
Segmentation and Change in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
It is no surprise that college tuition and student debt are on the rise. Universities no longer charge tuition to simply cover costs. They are market enterprises that charge whatever the market will bear. Institutional ambition, along with increasing competition for students, now shape the economics...
Global Human Smuggling
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Ten years ago the topic of human smuggling and trafficking was relatively new for academic researchers, though the practice itself is very old. Since the first edition of this volume was published, much has changed globally, directly impacting the phenomenon of human smuggling. Migrant smuggling and...
Athens Burning
The Persian Invasion of Greece and the Evacuation of Attica
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Between June 480 and August 479 BC, tens of thousands of Athenians evacuated, following King Xerxes’ victory at the Battle of Thermopylae. Abandoning their homes and ancestral tombs in the wake of the invading Persian army, they sought refuge abroad. Women and children were sent to one safe haven,...
The Dispossessed State
Narratives of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Do indigenous peoples have an unassailable right to the land they have worked and lived on, or are those rights conferred and protected only when a powerful political authority exists? In the tradition of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes, who vigorously debated the thorny concept of property rights, Sara...
Experimental Life
Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
If the objective of the Romantic movement was nothing less than to redefine the meaning of life itself, what role did experiments play in this movement? While earlier scholarship has established both the importance of science generally and vitalism specifically, with regard to Romanticism no study...
by Anne M. Myers
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes, churches, and monasteries are "documents" of the people who built them, owned them, lived and died in them, inherited and saved or destroyed them, and recorded their histories. Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England examines the...
Candid Creatures
How Camera Traps Reveal the Mysteries of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In Candid Creatures, the first major book to reveal the secret lives of animals through motion-sensitive game cameras, biologist Roland Kays has assembled over 600 remarkable photographs. Drawing from archives of millions of color and night-vision photographs collected by hundreds of researchers,...
by C. S. Monaco
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The Second Seminole War (1835–1842) was the last major conflict fought on American soil before the Civil War. The early battlefield success of the Seminoles unnerved US generals, who worried it would spark a rebellion among Indians newly displaced by President Andrew Jackson's removal policies....
New Worlds for All
Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much of the land...