Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Governed by a Spirit of Opposition
The Origins of American Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
During the colonial era, ordinary Philadelphians played an unusually active role in political life. Because the city lacked a strong central government, private individuals working in civic associations of their own making shouldered broad responsibility for education, poverty relief, church governance,...
Phantom Menace or Looming Danger?
A New Framework for Assessing Bioweapons Threats
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
The horrifying terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and the anthrax strikes that soon followed gave the United States new reason to fear unconventional enemies and atypical weapons. These fears have prompted extensive research, study, and planning within the U.S. military, intelligence, and policy...
The Old and the Lost
Collected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
"I was born in a land of bayous, raised between rivers," Glenn Blake writes. "There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters, and as you drive across, you can look to the south and see where the Old River and the Lost...
by Tracy Daugherty
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
In the spare and deliberate stories in The Empire of the Dead, through situations both comic and bluntly melancholy, the future remains open for people—but at an indeterminate cost. Daily, characters weigh their indecision against the consequences of choice.
Through a series of five linked...
by Thomas L. Pangle
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
In this book noted scholar Thomas L. Pangle brings back a lost and crucial dimension of political theory: the mutually illuminating encounter between skeptically rationalist political philosophy and faith-based political theology guided ultimately by the authority of the Bible. Focusing on the chapters...
Defect or Defend
Military Responses to Popular Protests in Authoritarian Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Although social movements and media can help destabilize authoritarian governments, not all social protest is effective or culminates in the toppling of dictatorships. Frequently, the military’s response determines the outcome.
In Defect or Defend, Terence Lee uses four case studies from...
The Kremlinologist
Llewellyn E Thompson, America's Man in Cold War Moscow
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award for Best Biography
Against the sprawling backdrop of the Cold War, The Kremlinologist revisits some of the twentieth century's greatest conflicts as seen through the eyes of its hardest working diplomat, Llewellyn E Thompson. From the wilds of the...
Exquisite Masochism
Marriage, Sex, and the Novel Form
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
How did realist novelists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries hint at sex while maintaining a safe distance from pornography? Metaphors helped: waves, oceans, blooms, and illuminations were all deployed in respectable realist novels to allude to the sexual act, allowing writers to portray...
Disorders of Sex Development
A Guide for Parents and Physicians
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Compassionately written by an experienced team of professionals, this book offers parents and families essential information about the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders of sex development, or DSD.
DSD refers to medical conditions, usually discovered at birth, in which there is disagreement...
Healing Gotham
New York City’s Public Health Policies for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Throughout its history, New York City has been challenged by a variety of public health crises. Since the nineteenth century—when it became one of the first American cities to develop a comprehensive public health infrastructure—New York has also stood at the forefront of formulating and implementing...
Crisis in an Atlantic Empire
Spain and New Spain, 1808-1810
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
With a compelling narrative that weaves together story and thesis and brings to life immense archival research and empirical data, Crisis in an Atlantic Empire is a finely grained historical tour of the period covering 1808 to 1810, which is often called "the age of revolutions."
The...
Imagined Homelands
British Poetry in the Colonies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Imagined Homelands chronicles the emerging cultures of nineteenth-century British settler colonialism, focusing on poetry as a genre especially equipped to reflect colonial experience. Jason Rudy argues that the poetry of Victorian-era Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada—often disparaged...
by Humberto Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
A corrective addendum to Edward Said’s Orientalism, this book examines how sympathetic representations of Islam contributed significantly to Protestant Britain’s national and imperial identity in the eighteenth century.
Taking a historical view, Humberto Garcia combines a rereading of eighteenth-century...
by Jay Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Quintus Ennius, often considered the father of Roman poetry, is best remembered for his epic poem, the Annals, a history of Rome from Aeneas until his own lifetime. Ennius represents an important bridge between Homer’s works in Greek and Vergil’s Aeneid. Jay Fisher argues that Ennius does not...