Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
The C&O Canal Companion
A Journey through Potomac History
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
A comprehensive guide to one of America's unique national parks, The C&O Canal Companion takes readers on a mile-by-mile, lock-by-lock tour of the 184-mile Potomac River waterway and towpath that stretches from Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Maryland, and the Allegheny Mountains. Making extensive...
by Edward Dennis Sokol
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
During the summer of 1916, approximately 270,000 Central Asians—Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks—perished at the hands of the Russian army in a revolt that began with resistance to the Tsar’s World War I draft. In addition to those killed outright, tens of thousands of men, women,...
Western Attitudes toward Death
From the Middle Ages to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1974
A Cinema of Poetry
Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
A Cinema of Poetry brings Italian film studies into dialogue with fields outside its usual purview by showing how films can contribute to our understanding of aesthetic questions that stretch back to Homer. Joseph Luzzi considers the relation between film and literature, especially the cinematic adaptation...
Performing the Temple of Liberty
Slavery, Theater, and Popular Culture in London and Philadelphia, 1760–1850
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Jenna M. Gibbs explores the world of theatrical and related print production on both sides of the Atlantic in an age of remarkable political and social change. Her deeply researched study of working-class and middling entertainment covers the period of the American Revolution through the first half...
Living with Schizophrenia
A Family Guide to Making a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
An estimated 51 million people worldwide have schizophrenia, 2.2 million of them in the United States. While early diagnosis and appropriate treatment improve the long-term prognosis, schizophrenia is a disease that is difficult to manage.
In Living with Schizophrenia, Drs. Jeffrey Rado and...
Imaginary Citizens
Child Readers and the Limits of American Independence, 1640–1868
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
From the colonial period to the end of the Civil War, children’s books taught young Americans how to be good citizens and gave them the freedom, autonomy, and possibility to imagine themselves as such, despite the actual limitations of the law concerning child citizenship. Imaginary Citizens argues...
by Daniel Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
The poems in The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel navigate the evanescent boundaries between the public and the private self. Daniel Anderson’s settings are often social but never fail to turn inward, drowning out the chatter of conversation to quietly observe the truths that we simultaneously...
On Depression
Drugs, Diagnosis, and Despair in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
In a culture obsessed with youth, financial success, and achieving happiness, is it possible to live an authentic, meaningful life? Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorder Program at Tufts Medical Center, reflects on our society's current quest for happiness and rejection of any emotion resembling...
Einstein's Jewish Science
Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Is relativity Jewish? The Nazis denigrated Albert Einstein’s revolutionary theory by calling it "Jewish science," a charge typical of the ideological excesses of Hitler and his followers. Philosopher of science Steven Gimbel explores the many meanings of this provocative phrase and considers...
Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking
Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
From the first edition of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook to the latest works by today's celebrity chefs, cookbooks reflect more than just passing culinary fads. As historical artifacts, they offer a unique perspective on the cultures that produced them. In Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking, Jessamyn...
by Anthony Hecht
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anthony Hecht (1923–2004) was known not only for his masterful control of form and language but also for his wit and humor.
With the help of Helen Hecht, the poet’s widow, Jonathan F. S. Post combed through more than 4,000 letters to produce an intimate look...
Lyric Generations
Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements—the emergence of the novel and the development of Romantic lyric poetry. In fact, recent scholarship reveals that these genres are inextricably bound: constructions of interiority developed...
John Adams's Republic
The One, the Few, and the Many
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Scholars have examined John Adams’s writings and beliefs for generations, but no one has brought such impressive credentials to the task as Richard Alan Ryerson in John Adams’s Republic. The editor-in-chief of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Adams Papers project for nearly two decades,...