Johns Hopkins University Press: 958 books
Matters of Fact in Jane Austen
History, Location, and Celebrity
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
In Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity, Janine Barchasmakes the bold assertion that Jane Austen’s novels allude to actual high-profile politicians and contemporary celebrities as well as to famous historical figures and landed estates. Barchas is the first scholar to...
Chance Particulars
A Writer's Field Notebook for Travelers, Bloggers, Essayists, Memoirists, Novelists, Journalists, Adventurers, Naturalists, Sketchers, and Other Note-Takers and Recorders of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The goal of the writer is to live with the keenness of the foreigner. To experience, wide-eyed, the sensations aroused and the events offered up by peculiar surrounds and then to evoke them so brightly on the page that the reader, too, experiences the foreigner’s frisson. A time-honored way this...
George Washington's Eye
Landscape, Architecture, and Design at Mount Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
On the banks of the Potomac River, Mount Vernon stands, with its iconic portico boasting breathtaking views and with a landscape to rival the great gardens of Europe, as a monument to George Washington’s artistic and creative efforts. More than one million people visit Mount Vernon each year—drawn...
Who Owns America's Past?
The Smithsonian and the Problem of History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29 sent to destroy Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, the ensuing political uproar caught the museum's parent Smithsonian Institution entirely unprepared. As the largest such complex in the world, the Smithsonian...
by David Hochfelder
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the internet in our own day. Historian and electrical engineer David Hochfelder offers readers a comprehensive history of this groundbreaking technology, which employs breaks in an electrical current to send code along miles of wire. The Telegraph...
On Middle Ground
A History of the Jews of Baltimore
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
In 1938, Gustav Brunn and his family fled Nazi Germany and settled in Baltimore. Brunn found a job at McCormick’s Spice Company but was fired after three days when, according to family legend, the manager discovered he was Jewish. He started his own successful business using a spice mill he brought...
Summer in the City
John Lindsay, New York, and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
Summer in the City takes a clear look at John Lindsay’s tenure as mayor of New York City during the tumultuous 1960s, when President Lyndon Johnson launched his ambitious Great Society Program. Providing an even-handed reassessment of Lindsay’s legacy and the policies of the period, the essays...
Alien Universe
Extraterrestrial Life in Our Minds and in the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
If extraterrestrials exist, where are they? How likely is it that somewhere in the universe an Earth-like planet supports an advanced culture? Why do so many people claim to have encountered Aliens? In this gripping exploration, scientist Don Lincoln exposes and explains the truths about the belief...
Music in the Shadows
Noir Musical Films
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Smoke. Shadows. Moody strains of jazz. Welcome to the world of "noir musical" films, where tormented antiheroes and hard-boiled musicians battle obsession and struggle with their music and ill-fated love triangles. Sultry divas dance and sing the blues in shrouded nightclubs. Romantic intrigue...
Musical Maryland
A History of Song and Performance from the Colonial Period to the Age of Radio
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
In Musical Maryland, the first comprehensive survey of the music emanating from the Old Line State, David K. Hildebrand and Elizabeth M. Schaaf explore the myriad ways in which music has enriched the lives of Marylanders. From the drinking songs of colonial Annapolis, the liturgical music of the Zion...
by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term "literature" as we know it today did not appear until the very end of the Middle Ages? In this novel introduction to French literature of the period, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet says yes, arguing...
Rock Star
The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
"All stars are celebrities, but not all celebrities are stars," states David Shumway in the introduction to Rock Star, an informal history of rock stardom. This deceptively simple statement belies the complex definition and meaning of stardom and more specifically of rock icons. Shumway...
Outsiders
Five Women Writers Who Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner and Virginia Woolf: they all wrote dazzling books that forever changed the way we see history. In Outsiders, award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon shows how these five novelists shared more than talent. In a time when a woman's reputation...
Playboys and Mayfair Men
Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In December 1937, four respectable young men in their twenties, all products of elite English public schools, conspired to lure to the luxurious Hyde Park Hotel a representative of Cartier, the renowned jewelry firm. There, the "Mayfair men" brutally bludgeoned diamond salesman Etienne Bellenger...