Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Hell Before Their Very Eyes
American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
On April 4, 1945, United States Army units from the 89th Infantry Division and the 4th Armored Division seized Ohrdruf, the first of many Nazi concentration camps to be liberated in Germany. In the weeks that followed, as more camps were discovered, thousands of soldiers came face to face with the...
Transatlantic Aliens
Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The intellectual migration to the United States of European writers, intellectuals, and artists in the 1930s and 1940s has often been narrowly seen as a clash between a rarefied European modernist sensibility and a debased American mass culture. In Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding...
Porcupines
The Animal Answer Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Could a porcupine make a good pet? Do they ever stick themselves or other porcupines with their quills? In this latest addition to the Animal Answer Guide series, we learn about these mysterious animals' "pincushion defense," along with the following facts:
• Porcupines survive...
Fishes
The Animal Answer Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
One fish, two fish, red fish, nearly thirty thousand species of fish—or fishes, as they are properly called when speaking of multiple species. This is but one of many things the authors of this fascinatingly informative book reveal in answering common and not-so-common questions about this ubiquitous...
Revolution
The Event in Postwar Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Socially, politically, and artistically, the 1950s make up an odd interlude between the first half of the twentieth century—still tied to the problems and orders of the Victorian era and Gilded Age—and the pervasive transformations of the later sixties. In Revolution, Matthew Wilkens argues that...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
At first glance, modernism and opera may seem like strange bedfellows—the former hostile to sentiment, the latter wearing its heart on its sleeve. And yet these apparent opposites attract: many operas are aesthetically avant-garde, politically subversive, and socially transgressive. From the proto-modernist...
Birds of Stone
Chinese Avian Fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
When fossils of birds from China’s Jehol region first appeared in scientific circles, the world took notice. These Mesozoic masterpieces are between 120 and 131 million years old and reveal incredible details that capture the diversity of ancient bird life. Paleontologists all over the world began...
Iron Coffin
War, Technology, and Experience aboard the USS Monitor
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The USS Monitor famously battled the CSS Virginia (the armored and refitted USS Merrimack) at Hampton Roads in March 1862. This updated edition of David A. Mindell's classic account of the ironclad warships and the human dimension of modern warfare commemorates the 150th anniversary of this historic...
Committed
The Battle over Involuntary Psychiatric Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Battle lines have been drawn over involuntary treatment. On one side are those who oppose involuntary psychiatric treatments under any condition. Activists who take up this cause often don’t acknowledge that psychiatric symptoms can render people dangerous to themselves or others, regardless of...
The Draining of the Fens
Projectors, Popular Politics, and State Building in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
The draining of the Fens in eastern England was one of the largest engineering projects in seventeenth-century Europe. A series of Dutch and English "projectors," working over several decades and with the full support of the Crown, transformed hundreds of thousands of acres of putatively...
Faces of the Civil War Navies
An Album of Union and Confederate Sailors
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
During the American Civil War, more than one hundred thousand men fought on ships at sea or on one of America’s great inland rivers. There were no large-scale fleet engagements, yet the navies, particularly the Union Navy, did much to define the character of the war and affect its length. The first...
The Secret History of the Jersey Devil
How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Legend has it that in 1735, a witch named Mother Leeds gave birth to a horrifying monster—a deformed flying horse with glowing red eyes—that flew up the chimney of her New Jersey home and disappeared into the Pine Barrens. Ever since, this nightmarish beast has haunted those woods, presaging catastrophe...
A Nation of Small Shareholders
Marketing Wall Street after World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Immediately after the frightening Great Crash of 1929, many Americans swore they would "never" or "never again" become involved in the stock market. Yet hordes of Americans eventually did come to embrace equity investing, to an extent actually far greater than the level of popular...
Cork Wars
Intrigue and Industry in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
In 1940, with German U-boats blockading all commerce across the Atlantic Ocean, a fireball at the Crown Cork and Seal factory lit the sky over Baltimore. The newspapers said that you could see its glow as far north as Philadelphia and as far south as Annapolis. Rumors of Nazi sabotage led to an FBI...