Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
The Psychotherapy of Hope
The Legacy of Persuasion and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Directly inspired by the work of Jerome D. Frank and his field-defining book Persuasion and Healing, this volume of essays by distinguished contemporary scholars broadly assesses the current state of research and practice in psychotherapy.
Editors Renato D. Alarcón, a former student of Frank's,...
Integrating the US Military
Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
One of the great ironies of American history since World War II is that the military—typically a conservative institution—has often been at the forefront of civil rights. In the 1940s, the 1970s, and the early 2000s, military integration and promotion policies were in many ways more progressive...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Latin America experienced an unprecedented wave of left-leaning governments between 1998 and 2010. This volume examines the causes of this leftward turn and the consequences it carries for the region in the twenty-first century.
The Resurgence of the Latin American Left asks three central questions:...
Progressives at War
William G. McAdoo and Newton D. Baker, 1863–1941
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In this dual biography, Douglas B. Craig examines the careers of two prominent American public figures, Newton Diehl Baker and William Gibbs McAdoo, whose lives spanned the era between the Civil War and World War II.
Both Baker and McAdoo migrated from the South to northern industrial cities...
Empire and Nation
The American Revolution in the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The essays in Empire and Nation challenge facile assumptions about the "exceptional" character of the republic's founding moment, even as they invite readers to think anew about the complex ways in which the Revolution reshaped both American society and the Atlantic world.
How did...
Remixing the Civil War
Meditations on the Sesquicentennial
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
In 1961, the historian and poet Robert Penn Warren remarked that "the Civil War is, for the American imagination, the great single event of our history." This volume reconsiders whether, fifty years later, Warren’s claim still holds true.
Essays from specialists in art, literature,...
Slavery's Ghost
The Problem of Freedom in the Age of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
President Abraham Lincoln freed millions of slaves in the South in 1863, rescuing them, as history tells us, from a brutal and inhuman existence and making the promise of freedom and equal rights. This is a moment to celebrate and honor, to be sure, but what of the darker, more troubling side of this...
The Twentieth-Century American City
Problem, Promise, and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Throughout the twentieth century, the city was deemed a problematic space, one that Americans urgently needed to improve. Although cities from New York to Los Angeles served as grand monuments to wealth and enterprise, they also reflected the social and economic fragmentation of the nation. Race,...
The Best War Ever
America and World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and we understood what we were fighting for. The war was good for the economy. It was liberating for women. A battle of tanks and airplanes,...
by Tracy Roof
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Despite achieving monumental reforms in the United States such as the eight-hour workday, a federal minimum wage, and workplace health and safety laws, organized labor’s record on much of its agenda has been mixed. Tracy Roof’s sweeping examination of labor unions and the American legislative...
The Prodigious Muse
Women's Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
In her award-winning, critically acclaimed Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400–1650, Virginia Cox chronicles the history of women writers in early modern Italy—who they were, what they wrote, where they fit in society, and how their status changed during this period. In this book, Cox examines more...
Your Maryland
Little-Known Histories from the Shores of the Chesapeake to the Foothills of the Allegheny Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
"Good evening, I’m Ric Cottom. Welcome to Your Maryland." Since 2002, when he first delivered his now-classic radio segment on Maryland history, Ric Cottom has narrated hundreds of little-known human interest stories. Collected here are 72 of his favorite on-air pieces, enhanced with beautiful...
Invisible Sovereign
Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent—and ambiguous—invention. While appearing to promise a new style and system of democratic and deliberative politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices and hierarchies, forestall...
Understanding Anesthesia
What You Need to Know about Sedation and Pain Control
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2012
Most people choose their surgeon with care, but very few think about the anesthesiologist, even though that specialist's skills and approach can significantly influence the success of surgery. Here Dr. Steven L. Orebaugh recommends steps we all can take to secure safe and effective anesthesia.
What...