Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Fiction
"An Almost Theatrical Innocence"
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
"Fitzgerald’s work has always deeply moved me," writes John T. Irwin. "And this is as true now as it was fifty years ago when I first picked up The Great Gatsby. I can still remember the occasions when I first read each of his novels; remember the time, place, and mood of those early...
The Zukofsky Era
Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Inaugurated in 1931 by Louis Zukofsky, Objectivist poetry gave expression to the complex contours of culture and politics in America during the Great Depression. This study of Zukofsky and two others in the Objectivist constellation, George Oppen and Lorine Niedecker, elaborates the dialectic between...
Disciplining Girls
Understanding the Origins of the Classic Orphan Girl Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
At the heart of some of the most beloved children’s novels is a passionate discussion about discipline, love, and the changing role of girls in the twentieth century. Joe Sutliff Sanders traces this debate as it began in the sentimental tales of the mid-nineteenth century and continued in the classic...
by John R. Thelin
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Colleges and universities are among the most cherished—and controversial—institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector in American life.
Thelin’s...
Pythagorean Women
Their History and Writings
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In Pythagorean Women, classical scholar Sarah B. Pomeroy discusses the groundbreaking principles that Pythagoras established for family life in Archaic Greece, such as constituting a single standard of sexual conduct for women and men. Among the Pythagoreans, women played an important role and participated...
by Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Ginzburg
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century Italian painting, Freud’s wolf-man, and other...
Openness, Secrecy, Authorship
Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In today's world of intellectual property disputes, industrial espionage, and book signings by famous authors, one easily loses sight of the historical nature of the attribution and ownership of texts. In Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to...
The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank
Inside Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Sigmund Freud’s relationship with Otto Rank was the most constant, close, and significant of his professional life. Freud considered Rank to be the most brilliant of his disciples. The two collaborated on psychoanalytic writing, practice, and politics; Rank was the managing director of Freud’s...
by Dominick LaCapra
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Trauma and its aftermath pose acute problems for historical representation and understanding. In Writing History, Writing Trauma, Dominick LaCapra critically analyzes attempts by theorists and literary critics to come to terms with trauma and with the crucial role post-traumatic testimonies—notably...
Dealing with Darwin
Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Using place, politics, and rhetoric as analytical tools, historical geographer David N. Livingstone investigates how religious communities sharing a Scots Presbyterian heritage engaged with Darwin and Darwinism at the turn of the twentieth century. His findings, presented as the prestigious Gifford...
The Tea Party
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The Tea Party burst on the national political scene in 2009–2010, powered by right-wing grassroots passion and Astroturf big money. Its effect on electoral politics and the political process is undeniable, but the message, aims, and staying power of the loosely organized groups seem less clear....
Transitions to Democracy
A Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
As demonstrated by current events in Tunisia and Egypt, oppressive regimes are rarely immune to their citizens’ desire for democratic government. Of course, desire is always tempered by reality; therefore how democratic demands are made manifest is a critical source of study for both political scientists...
Adventures of a Female Medical Detective
In Pursuit of Smallpox and AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In 1974, a young doctor arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with one goal in mind: to help eradicate smallpox. The only woman physician in her class in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a two-year epidemiology training program, Mary Guinan soon was selected to join India’s...
Contested Conventions
The Struggle to Establish the Constitution and Save the Union, 1787–1789
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
There is perhaps no more critical juncture in American history than the years in which Americans drafted the federal Constitution, fiercely debated its merits and failings, and adopted it, albeit with reservations. In Contested Conventions, senior historian Melvin Yazawa examines the political and...