Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
by Timothy Michael
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
What role should reason play in the creation of a free and just society? Can we claim to know anything in a field as complex as politics? And how can the cause of political rationalism be advanced when it is seen as having blood on its hands? These are the questions that occupied a group of British...
Fanny Hill in Bombay
The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
John Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer of pornographic writing in English. His first novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, is one of the enduring literary creations of the eighteenth century, despite...
by Claudia T. Kairoff
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Anna Seward and her career defy easy placement into the traditional periods of British literature. Raised to emulate the great poets John Milton and Alexander Pope, maturing in the Age of Sensibility, and publishing during the early Romantic era, Seward exemplifies the eighteenth-century transition...
Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy
How American Presidents Succeed in Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Is following a coherent grand strategy the key to achieving successful outcomes in American foreign policy? For many experts in academia and Washington, the answer is yes. Policymakers usually face criticism when they take incremental actions based on short-term considerations. But could such actions...
Sounding Imperial
Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730–1820
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
In Sounding Imperial, James Mulholland offers a new assessment of the origins, evolution, and importance of poetic voice in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By examining a series of literary experiments in which authors imitated oral voices and impersonated foreign speakers, Mulholland...
Building Washington
Engineering and Construction of the New Federal City, 1790−1840
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In 1790, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson set out to build a new capital for the United States of America in just ten years. The area they selected on the banks of the Potomac River, a spot halfway between the northern and southern states, had few resources or inhabitants. Almost everything...
by Anton M. Matytsin
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The ancient Greek philosophy of Pyrrhonian skepticism spread across a wide spectrum of disciplines in the 1600s, casting a shadow over the European learned world. The early modern skeptics expressed doubt concerning the existence of an objective reality independent of human perception. They also questioned...
A Woman's Guide to Pelvic Health
Expert Advice for Women of All Ages
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In A Woman’s Guide to Pelvic Health a urologist and a physical therapist offer expert and reassuring advice to women. For example, one of every four women suffers from urinary incontinence, the involuntary leakage of urine. Elizabeth E. Houser and Stephanie Riley Hahn want these women to know that...
The New Deal's Forest Army
How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Propelled by the unprecedented poverty of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established an array of massive public works programs designed to provide direct relief to America’s poor and unemployed. The New Deal’s most tangible legacy may be the Civilian Conservation Corps’s...
The Savant and the State
Science and Cultural Politics in Nineteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
There has been a tendency to view science in nineteenth-century France as the exclusive territory of the nation’s leading academic centers and the powerful Paris-based administrators who controlled them. Ministries and the great savants and institutions of the capital seem to have defined the field,...
On Our Minds
How Evolutionary Psychology Is Reshaping the Nature versus Nurture Debate
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
There is no question more fundamental to human existence than that posed by the nature-versus-nurture debate. For much of the past century, it was widely believed that there was no essential human nature and that people could be educated or socialized to thrive in almost any imaginable culture. Today,...
The Mediterranean World
From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Located at the intersection of Asia, Africa, and Europe, the Mediterranean has connected societies for millennia, creating a shared space of intense economic, cultural, and political interaction. Greek temples in Sicily, Roman ruins in North Africa, and Ottoman fortifications in Greece serve as reminders...
The Fabulous Dark Cloister
Romance in England after the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Romances were among the most popular books in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries among both Protestant and Catholic readers. Modeled after Catholic narratives, particularly the lives of saints, these works emphasized the supernatural and the marvelous, themes commonly associated with Catholicism....
The Art of Alibi
English Law Courts and the Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In The Art of Alibi, Jonathan Grossman reconstructs the relation of the novel to nineteenth-century law courts. During the Romantic era, courthouses and trial scenes frequently found their way into the plots of English novels. As Grossman states, "by the Victorian period, these scenes represented...