Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Refinancing the College Dream
Access, Equal Opportunity, and Justice for Taxpayers
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
During the 1990s, rising tuition costs and inadequate federal grant aid prevented more than a million otherwise qualified, low-income students from continuing their education past high school. Education policy expert Edward P. St. John is troubled by this situation and argues that equal access to...
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer
And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
On April 12, 1954, the nation was astonished to learn that J. Robert Oppenheimer was facing charges of violating national security. Could the director of the Manhattan Project, the visionary who led the effort to build the atom bomb, really be a traitor? In this riveting book, bestselling author Priscilla...
Rethinking the Administrative Presidency
Trust, Intellectual Capital, and Appointee-Careerist Relations in the George W. Bush Administration
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Why do presidents face so many seemingly avoidable bureaucratic conflicts? And why do these clashes usually intensify toward the end of presidential administrations, when a commander-in-chief’s administrative goals tend to be more explicit and better aligned with their appointed leadership’s prerogatives?...
Digital Politics in Western Democracies
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Digital politics is shorthand for how internet technologies have fueled the complex interactions between political actors and their constituents. Cristian Vaccari analyzes the presentation and consumption of online politics in seven advanced Western democracies—Australia, France, Germany, Italy,...
Violence after War
Explaining Instability in Post-Conflict States
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The end of one war is frequently the beginning of another because the cessation of conflict produces two new challenges: a contest between the winners and losers over the terms of peace, and a battle within the winning party over the spoils of war. As the victors and the vanquished struggle to establish...
Professors Behaving Badly
Faculty Misconduct in Graduate Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
• A faculty member publishes an article without offering coauthorship to a graduate assistant who has made a substantial conceptual or methodological contribution to the article.
• A professor does not permit graduate students to express viewpoints different from her own.
• A graduate student...
Bioethics in a Liberal Society
The Political Framework of Bioethics Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Issues concerning patients' rights are at the center of bioethics, but the political basis for these rights has rarely been examined. In Bioethics in a Liberal Society: The Political Framework of Bioethics Decision Making, Thomas May offers a compelling analysis of how the political context of liberal...
by Jon Cowans
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Using popular cinema from the United States, Britain, and France, Empire Films and the Crisis of Colonialism, 1946–1959, examines postwar Western attitudes toward colonialism and race relations. Historians have written much about the high politics of decolonization but little about what ordinary...
The Challenge of Independent Colleges
Moving Research into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book began as a collaboration among top higher education researchers, the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) scholars, and the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC). Documenting the challenges and opportunities facing independent colleges in several integral areas, including...
The Hymnal
A Reading History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
It stands barely three inches high, a small brick of a book. The pages are skewed a bit, and evidence of a small handprint remains on the worn, cheap leather covers that don’t quite close. The book bears the marks of considerable use. But why—and for whom—was it made?
Christopher N. Phillips’s...
Charging Up San Juan Hill
Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of Imperial America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Below a Cuban sun so hot it stung their eyes, American troops hunkered low at the base of Kettle Hill. Spanish bullets zipped overhead, while enemy artillery shells landed all around them. Driving Spanish forces from the high ground would mean gaining control of Santiago, Cuba, and, soon enough, American...
High-Speed Dreams
NASA and the Technopolitics of Supersonic Transportation, 1945–1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2008
In High-Speed Dreams, Erik M. Conway constructs an insightful history that focuses primarily on the political and commercial factors responsible for the rise and fall of American supersonic transport research programs. Conway charts commercial supersonic research efforts through the changing relationships...
Democratization in America
A Comparative-Historical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The essays in this volume examine democracy’s development in the United States, demonstrating how that process has shaped—and continues to shape—the American political system.
Scholars of American politics commonly describe the political development of the United States as exceptional...
Nature Exposed
Photography as Eyewitness in Victorian Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
In Nature Exposed, Jennifer Tucker studies the intersecting trajectories of photography and modern science in late Victorian Britain. She examines the role of photograph as witness in scientific investigation and explores the interplay between photography and scientific authority.
Almost immediately...