Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
A Chosen Calling
Jews in Science in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Scholars have struggled for decades to explain why Jews have succeeded extravagantly in modern science. A variety of controversial theories—from such intellects as C. P. Snow, Norbert Wiener, and Nathaniel Weyl—have been promoted. Snow hypothesized an evolved genetic predisposition to scientific...
by G. Martin Moeller Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
This lively and informative guide offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados alike insights into more than 400 of Washington, D.C.’s, most important landmarks. Organized into 19 discrete tours, this thoroughly redesigned and updated edition includes 45 new entries, encompassing the...
Front Stoops in the Fifties
Baltimore Legends Come of Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Front Stoops in the Fifties recounts the stories of some of Baltimore's most famous personalities as they grew up during the "decade of conformity." Such familiar names as Jerry Leiber, Nancy Pelosi, Thurgood Marshall, and Barry Levinson figure prominently in Michael Olesker’s gripping...
Eisenhower
Becoming the Leader of the Free World
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2018
In this engaging, fast-paced biography, Louis Galambos follows the career of Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower, offering new insight into this singular man who guided America toward consensus at home and a peaceful victory in the Cold War.
The long-time editor of the Eisenhower papers, Galambos...
The Philadelphia Country House
Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Colonial Americans, if they could afford it, liked to emulate the fashions of London and the style and manners of English country society while at the same time thinking of themselves as distinctly American. The houses they built reflected this ongoing cultural tension. By the mid-eighteenth century,...
Wild by Nature
North American Animals Confront Colonization
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
From the time Europeans first came to the New World until the closing of the frontier, the benefits of abundant wild animals—from beavers and wolves to fish, deer, and bison—appeared as a recurring theme in colonizing discourses. Explorers, travelers, surveyors, naturalists, and other promoters...
Seizing Power
The Strategic Logic of Military Coups
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
While coups drive a majority of regime changes and are responsible for the overthrow of many democratic governments, there has been very little empirical work on the subject. Seizing Power develops a new theory of coup dynamics and outcomes, drawing on 300 hours of interviews with coup participants...
Hezbollah and Hamas
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Hezbollah and Hamas are major players in Middle Eastern politics and have a growing involvement in global events. Despite their strikingly different beginnings, they share a common denominator—an adversary in Israel. Hezbollah and Hamas draws from primary interviews and documents coupled with a...
DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton
Geology and Power in Early New York
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
David I. Spanagel explores the origins of American geology and the culture that promoted it in nineteenth-century New York. Focusing on Amos Eaton, the educator and amateur scientist who founded the Rensselaer School, and DeWitt Clinton, the masterful politician who led the movement for the Erie Canal,...
Andrew Jackson
The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 1998
Available in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One covers the role Jackson played in America's territorial expansion, bringing to life a complex character who has often been seen simply as a rough-hewn country general. Volume...
Andrew Jackson
The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 1998
Available in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One covers the role Jackson played in America's territorial expansion, bringing to life a complex character who has often been seen simply as a rough-hewn country general. Volume...
Soldiering for Freedom
How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
After President Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, Confederate slaves who could reach Union lines often made that perilous journey. A great many of the young and middle-aged among them, along with other black men in the free and border slave states, joined the Union...
Civil War Memories
Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
At a cost of at least 800,000 lives, the Civil War preserved the Union, aborted the breakaway Confederacy, and liberated a race of slaves. Civil War Memories is the first comprehensive account of how and why Americans have selectively remembered, and forgotten, this watershed conflict since its conclusion...
Reading Herodotus
A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Debra Hamel’s book is a lively introduction to The History of the Persian Wars, Herodotus's account of Persia's expansion under four kings—Cyrus, Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes—and its eventual collision with the city-states of Greece.
The History can be a long slog for modern readers,...