Johns Hopkins University Press provides authors with a reputable forum for evidence-based discourse and exposure to a worldwide audience.
With critically acclaimed titles in history, science, higher education, health and wellness, humanities, classics, and public health, the Books Division publishes 150 new books each year and maintains a backlist in excess of 3,000 titles. With warehouses on three continents, worldwide sales representation, and a robust digital publishing program, the Books Division connects Hopkins authors to scholars, experts, and educational and research institutions around the world.
Antipastoral, Agriculture, and the Rural Modern in US Literature
How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception? What happens when rural America-long romanticized in pastoral literature-becomes associated with deficiency, degradation, and decline? Maria Farland's Degraded Heartland is the first critical study of US ......
Antipastoral, Agriculture, and the Rural Modern in US Literature
How did rural America come to be viewed as backward and inferior, and how did literary modernism respond to and critique this perception? What happens when rural America-long romanticized in pastoral literature-becomes associated with deficiency, degradation, and decline? Maria Farland's Degraded Heartland is the first critical study of US ......
This collection of essays examines alternative theories about persons and personal identity at the beginning and end of life. The contributors seek to answer the important question: When does a person begin and cease to exist? While the concept of personhood has figured prominently in contemporary debates over abortion and stem cell research, this ......
This collection of essays examines alternative theories about persons and personal identity at the beginning and end of life. The contributors seek to answer the important question: When does a person begin and cease to exist? While the concept of personhood has figured prominently in contemporary debates over abortion and stem cell research, this ......
Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel
As revolution and popular unrest roiled the final decades of the eighteenth century, authors, activists, and philosophers across the British Empire hailed the rise of the liberal subject, valorizing the humanity of the marginalized and the rights of members of groups long considered inferior or subhuman. Yet at the same time, a group of ......
Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel
As revolution and popular unrest roiled the final decades of the eighteenth century, authors, activists, and philosophers across the British Empire hailed the rise of the liberal subject, valorizing the humanity of the marginalized and the rights of members of groups long considered inferior or subhuman. Yet at the same time, a group of ......
Explores how authoritarian regimes are deploying "sharp power" to undermine democracies from within by weaponizing universities, institutions, media, technology, and entertainment industries. The world's dictators are no longer content with shoring up control over their own populations-they are now exploiting the openness of the free world to ......
How does a democracy deal with threats to its stability and continued existence when those threats come from political parties that play the democratic game? In Defending Democracy, political scientist Giovanni Capoccia studies key European nations between World Wars I and II which survived such democratic crises. A comprehensive and thoughtful ......
How does a democracy deal with threats to its stability and continued existence when those threats come from political parties that play the democratic game? In Defending Democracy, political scientist Giovanni Capoccia studies key European nations between World Wars I and II which survived such democratic crises.A comprehensive and thoughtful ......
