Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Selma’s Bloody Sunday
Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
On Sunday afternoon, March 7, 1965, roughly six hundred peaceful demonstrators set out from Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in a double-file column to march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. Leading the march were Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and...
Inventing the Pinkertons; or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs
Being a story of the nation’s most famous (and infamous) detective agency
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Between 1865 and 1937, Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency was at the center of countless conflicts between capital and labor, bandits and railroads, and strikers and state power. Some believed that the detectives were protecting society from dangerous criminal conspiracies; others thought that...
Hodges' Scout
A Lost Patrol of the French and Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In September 1756, fifty American soldiers set off on a routine reconnaissance near Lake George, determined to safeguard the upper reaches of the New York colony. Caught in a devastating ambush by French and native warriors, only a handful of colonials made it back alive. Toward the end of the French...
Cannibal Encounters
Europeans and Island Caribs, 1492–1763
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2009
Philip Boucher analyzes the images—and the realities—of European relations with the people known as Island Caribs during the first three centuries after Columbus. Based on literary sources, travelers' observations, and missionary accounts, as well as on French and English colonial archives and...
by Peter Charles Hoffer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Over the past half-century, historians have greatly enriched our understanding of America's past, broadening their fields of inquiry from such traditional topics as politics and war to include the agency of class, race, ethnicity, and gender and to focus on the lives of ordinary men and women. We...
Plantation Kingdom
The American South and Its Global Commodities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In 1850, America’s plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities...
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The Strategy and Statecraft of Zbigniew Brzezinski
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s multifaceted career dealing with U.S. security and foreign policy has led him from the halls of academia to multiple terms in public service, including a stint as President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981. He is a renowned policy analyst and author...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Wildlife professionals can more effectively manage species and social-ecological systems by fully considering the role that humans play in every stage of the process. Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management provides the essential information that students and practitioners need to be effective problem...
Securing the West
Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785–1850
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Few issues defined the period between American independence and the Mexican War more sharply than westward settlement and the role of the federal government in that expansion. In Securing the West, John R. Van Atta examines the visions of the founding generation and the increasing influence of ideological...
Wolf by the Ears
The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
From the early days of the republic, American leaders knew that an unpredictable time bomb—the question of slavery—lay at the heart of national politics. An implicit understanding between North and South helped to keep the issue at bay: northern states, where slavery had been set on course for...
Blood on Steel
Chicago Steelworkers and the Strike of 1937
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
On Memorial Day 1937, thousands of steelworkers, middle-class supporters, and working-class activists gathered at Sam's Place on the Southeast Side of Chicago to protest Republic Steel’s virulent opposition to union recognition and collective bargaining. By the end of the day, ten marchers had been...
by Carolyn Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women worldwide. Yet most people are still unaware that heart disease is not just a man's problem. Carolyn Thomas, a heart attack survivor herself, is on a mission to educate women about their heart health. Based on her popular Heart Sisters blog, which...
Science Unshackled
How Obscure, Abstract, Seemingly Useless Scientific Research Turned Out to Be the Basis for Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Why in the world are we paying for all this "basic" research? The answer to this question becomes clear in this romp through the "seemingly useless" world of pure science, where one thing leads to another in ways that result in major scientific advancements.
With a novelistic...
Anxiety
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
More people today report feeling anxious than ever before—even while living in relatively safe and prosperous modern societies. Almost one in five people experiences an anxiety disorder each year, and more than a quarter of the population admits to an anxiety condition at some point in their lives....