Books published by Johns Hopkins University Press

An expansion of Cohn's Christian Gauss lectures at Princeton and the product of many years of labor and thought, The Distinction of Fiction builds on narratological and phenomenological theories to show that boundaries between fiction and history can be firmly and systematically explored.

Drawing on a wide array of sources-personal accounts, medical records, popular magazines, medical journals, and beauty guides-Haiken reveals how our culture came to see cosmetic surgery as a panacea for both individual and social problems.

Turning life into art, Bohemia became a space where many innovative and original figures-some famous, some obscure-found a home.

No recent book in English (or for that matter in any language) has attempted a concise survey of the subject."-from the Preface

A documentary and analytical record, this work presents the classical background of primitivism and anti-primitivism in modern literature, historiography, and social and moral philosophy. The theories of Plato and Aristotle, and the concepts of cynicism and stoicism are discussed.

This paperback edition reprints the Harper & Brothers edition, published in New York in 1858-59.

Throughout, Chartier keeps his focus on historians who have stressed the relations between the products of discourse and social practices.

In exploring the consequences of conventional understandings of nature, The Social Creation of Nature seeks a way around the limitations of a socially created nature in order to defend what is actually imperiled-"wildness,in which, Thoreau wrote, lies hope for "the preservation of the world."

A valuable, provoking, important addition to any theatre scholar or practitioner's library, especially since feminist theory is a relative newcomer to the world of theatre.

These analyses explore both intra- and interregional similarities and differences.

"-Abraham F. Lowenthal, from the foreword

Explores questions relating to the nature of representation in art. It asks how we recognize likeness in caricatures or portraits, for instance, and presents the conflicting arguments and opinions of an art historian, a psychologist and a philosopher.

It further suggests how regulatory structures might develop to support a comprehensive, holistic, and balanced approach to health, one that permits integration of orthodox medicine with complementary and alternative medicine, while continuing to protect patients from fraudulent and dangerous treatments.

This text examines the recent record of United Nations peacekeeping forces, developing criteria for assessing their operations. It aims to provide guidance for the management of new hostilities in areas such as Eastern Europe. An epilogue discusses the situations in Somalia, Bosnia and Cambodia.

Providing a history of economic theory, this book shows how the analytical tools used by economists have evolved from the 18th century to the present, and offers a comprehensive account of modern mainstream economics.

In the third part, Tchen focuses on how Americans' attitude toward the Chinese changed from fascination to demonization, leading to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Acts beginning in 1882.

Considered in its full poetic and philosophical dimensions, the Romance of the Rose thus acquires an altogether new significance in the history of literature: it appears as a work that incessantly explores its own capacity to be other than it is.

Focusing attention on gravity-fed water-flow systems in mediaeval cities and monasteries, this is a study of water technology in the Middle Ages. Roberta J. Magnusson challenges the view that hydraulic engineering died with the Romans and remained moribund until the Renaissance.

By the mid-nineteenth century, ornithology had become a scientific discipline with international experts, a large empirical base, and a rigorous methodology of watching and cataloging.

Calling into question widely held notions about how Americans came to differ from one another and explaining why those differences continue to flourish, this iconoclastic study-by scholars with differing regional ties-will refresh and redirect the centuries-old discussion over Americans' conceptions of themselves.

Felicity Nussbaum, co-recipient of the American Association for 18th-Century Studies' Louis Gottschalk Prize, considers the convergence of genre, gender and class in this reassessment of autobiographical writing in England from John Bunyan to Hester Thrale.

And Race raises a difficult practical question: What price do we place on our political traditions, institutions, and civic arrangements? This ambitious volume reexamines old questions in new ways that will stimulate a wide readership.

The letters, diaries, and journals piece together what it was like to experience tuberculosis, and eloquently reveal the tenacity and resolve with which people faced it.

Maxwell Fry includes new chapters on finance in endogenous growth models, foreign direct investment and the accumulation of foreign debt, and fiscal activities of central banks in developing countries.

Anthony Appiah; Emily Apter; Charles Bernheimer; Peter Brooks; Rey Chow; Jonathan Culler; David Damrosch; Elizabeth Fox-Genovese; Roland Greene; Margaret R. Higonnet; Francoise Lionnet; Marjorie Perloff; Mary Russo; Tobin Siebers; Mary Louise Pratt; Michael Riffaterre; Arnold Weinstein

Brings together leading thinkers on higher education from the United States and other countries to explore the new realities that emerged during the 1980s and to examine the trends, issues and challenges of the 1990s.

military action is raised anew-from Iraq to Bosnia-the lessons of the Dominican crisis will continue to command attention.

Otto Mayr, the director of Germany's leading technological museum, explores the relationship between machinery, technological thought, and culture. Contrasting England and the Continent, particularly in the eighteenth century, he uncovers a stikring pattern of technological metaphors applied to political systems-and lays the foundations of a new intellectual history of technology