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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.
Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era
''Shell offers admirably close readings [which are] often brilliant . . . Summary could do little more than hint at the riches laid open.''--The Eighteenth Century.''A remarkable piece of work. Valuable for a wide range of readers from the expert to the inquiring generalist.''--Religious Studies Review.In Money, Language, and Thought, Marc Shell ......
''A unique study of the relationship between literature and matters economic from Ancient Greece to our own times.''--The Independent.''Shell demonstrates that the economic thought of any historical period works in its literature far more problematically--and more profoundly--than a traditional description of economic influence can ......
Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam
''This eloquent, lucid, and complex work is the product of remarkable intelligence and erudition; it is a profound contribution to the understanding of the cultural hegemony of the West.''--Ralph M. Coury, Religious Studies Review.''All articles are extremely well written, exhibit impressive scholarship, and are thoughtful and are thoughtful and ......
This meditation by an award winning historian calls for a new way of looking at the natural world and our place in it, while boldly challenging the assumptions that underlie the way we teach and think about both history and time. Calvin Luther Martin's In the Spirit of the Earth is a provocative account of how the hunter-gatherer image of nature ......
''Profoundly searching, yet written with grace and lucidity. A distinguished historian and critic illuminates and answers one of the major problems of literary study in a work that will become and remain a classic.''--W. Jackson Bate.''Perkins writes clearly and concisely. Like René Wellek and M. H. Abrams, he has an admirable gift for making ......
This is the story of the 'other' Thomas Edison -- not the heroic lone inventor, but Edison the businessman, industrialist, and successful manager of one of the world's largest industrial research laboratories. Tracing his career from his boyhood to his death in 1931, Edison and the Business of Innovation reveals Edison to be an entrepreneur of ......
The Habsburg Sale of Towns, 1516-1700. 1, 108th Series, 1990
Throughout early modern Europe, one of the most extraordinary royal fund-raising schemes was the seizure and sale of church property to finance foreign wars. The monarchs of Habsburg Spain extended these seizures to municipal property and used the revenue to maintain their empire. They sold charters of autonomy to hundreds of villages, thus ......
''Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy Revisited is must reading for anyone who considers him- or herself a political economist, and it should also appeal to those probing the uncertainties of contemporary democratization.''--Philippe C. Schmitter, Stanford University.A Journal of Democracy Book.
