Books published by Johns Hopkins University Press

In Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan Thomas Berger analyzes the complex domestic and international political forces that brought about this unforeseen transformation.

How, Haskell asks in his conclusion, did the development of modern society alter "the way we explain human affairs and conceive of man?This edition includes a new appendix, listing all articles appearing in the Journal of Social Science from 1869 to 1901.

A lively and compelling history of a complex medical and cultural phenomenon, The Empty Cradle brings a valuable perspective to current debates about how we should think about and address the experience of infertility in our own time.

This illuminating study of the turmoil of fourth century Christianity includes the first English translations of many of Athanasius's ascetic and pastoral writings.

Christianity succeeded, he argues, in part because it acquired and adapted those parts of other philosophies and religions that had a popular appeal.

Bringing together 20 original articles by expert scholars in the fields of the history of religion and the history of medicine, Caring and Curing provides a fascinating and enlightening overview of how religious values have come to affect the practice of medicine and medical care.

Rich in insight into literature, the history of ideas, and the complexities of our being, The Pursuit of Love is a thought-provoking inquiry into fundamental aspects of all human relationships.

This text discusses topics in modern domestic policy reform, such as health, entitlements, environment and taxation, as well as changes that have occurred in the policy-making institutions of Congress, the executive branch, the states and the courts.

This text examines how the monarchs of Habsburg Spain extended seizures of church property to municipal property and used the revenue to maintain their empire. They sold charters of autonomy to hundreds of villages, thus converting them into towns, and sold towns to private buyers.

Offers a concise introduction to Jefferson's political philosophy, and aims to make a contribution to a prevailing historiographic controversy: was Thomas Jefferson a Lockean liberal or a classical republican? Sheldon claims that his thought followed a rich variety of theoretical traditions.

Surveying all of Kurosawa's films and examining six films in depth-The Idiot, The Lower Depths, Rashomon, Ikiru, Throne of Blood, and Ran-Goodwin finds in Kurosawa's themes and techniques the capacity to restructure perceptions of Western and Japanese cultures and to establish new meanings in each.

With contributors of divergent backgrounds and intersecting interests, Consequences of Theory proposes an agenda for the 1990s that demonstrates the continuing vitality of theoretical questions within the academy and in the public world of cultue, politics, and history.

Indeed, modern anthropology, as well as classics, owes a debt to Fustel de Coulanges, whose early insights in The Ancient City remain valid and provocative today.

Kraft offers an illuminating case study in the impact of technology on industry and society-and a provocative chapter in the cultural history of America.

Mysticism, Connor argues, lies at the heart of Bataille's double identity as an intellectual and as a kind of anarchic prophet.

If rhetoric is seen as language's capacity to differ from literal statement, and if "to differcan mean "to disagree,then the reading of the rhetoric of literature and theory here is an attempt to capture the logic of a text's own disagreement with itself.

Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralistmodel of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting potor "pure pluralistmodel.

Applying Bakhtin's critical methods to film, mass-media and cultural studies, Stam draws on Bakhtin's corporal semiotics of "the grotesque body" to analyze eroticism in the cinema, and explores issues including the "translinguistic" critique of Saussurean semiotics and Russian formalism.

With the renewed interest in the mind-body relationship as well as in the role of placebos in new and alternative medical procedures and therapies, the findings of this book are especially timely.

In America's Welfare State, Edward Berkowitz offers a concise and informative historical overview of this costly and often frustrating area of domestic policy.

In discovering the expectations and presuppositions that underlie all the perceptions, the reader learns to "readhimself as he does the text.

She argues that "a useful working definition of authorship permits a gradation of meaning between the poles of authority and originality,and guides us through the term's nuances with clarity rarely matched in a historical study.

The authors conclude with important recommendations for improving academic support, exploring various financial options, providing early encouragement-in other words, for recognizing the factors that influence students' decisions, and knowing when to pay attention to them.

The third volume covers Jackson's reelection to the presidency and the weighty issues with which he was faced: the nullification crisis, the tragic removal of the Indians beyond the Mississippi River, the mounting violence throughout the country over slavery, and the tortuous efforts to win the annexation of Texas.