BOOKS IN HISTORY
2018
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American History Eisenhower Becoming the Leader of the Free World
Louis Galambos How a small-town boy from Kansas became the leader of the free world. 2018
296 pp., 14 halftones, 1 map $26.95 hc
978-1-4214-2504-7
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Waterfront Manhattan From Henry Hudson to the High Line
Kurt C. Schlichting The waterfront was the key to New York City’s growth and prosperity. 2018
256 pp., 26 halftones, 22 maps, 1 chart $24.95 hc Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2523-8
Your Maryland Little-Known Histories from the Shores of the Chesapeake to the Foothills of the Allegheny Mountains
Ric Cottom Four centuries of Maryland’s history in one colorful and dramatic volume. 2017
256 pp., 18 b&w illus., 1 map
978-1-4214-2405-7
$22.95 pb
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Rainy Lake House Twilight of Empire on the Northern Frontier
Theodore Catton A fateful encounter between three backwoodsmen on the British– American–Indian frontier leads to the pursuit of wealth—and tragedy. 2017
424 pp., 3 maps
978-1-4214-2292-3
$32.95 hc
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Uncompromising Activist Richard Greener, First Black Graduate of Harvard College
Katherine Reynolds Chaddock Johns Hopkins University Press 2
Almost forgotten until his papers were discovered in a Chicago attic, Richard Greener was a pioneer who broke educational and professional barriers for black citizens. He was also a man caught between worlds. 2017
216 pp., 7 b&w photos
978-1-4214-2329-6
$24.95 hc
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American History The Class of ‘74 Congress after Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship
John A. Lawrence A thought-provoking look at the game-changing congressional Class of 1974. 2018
408 pp., 20 b&w photos
978-1-4214-2469-9
$29.95 hc
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The Kremlinologist Llewellyn E Thompson, America’s Man in Cold War Moscow
Jenny Thompson and Sherry Thompson An Owl in a Hawk’s World: Top diplomat Llewellyn E Thompson was everywhere the Cold War was.
Johns Hopkins Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs Martin J. Sherwin, Series Editor 2018
608 pp., 48 b&w photos
978-1-4214-2454-5
$39.95 pb
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Civil War Memories Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865
Robert J. Cook Why has the Civil War continued to influence American life so profoundly? 2017
288 pp.
978-1-4214-2349-4
$24.95 pb
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The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox Phillip Hamilton Love and marriage during the Revolutionary War through the letters of Lucy and Henry Knox. 2017
224 pp., 4 b&w photos, 1 map $24.95 pb Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2345-6
Born in the Country David B. Danbom The definitive history of life in rural America.
Revisiting Rural America, Pete Daniel and Mary C. Neth, Series Founders 2017
304 pp., 10 b&w photos
978-1-4214-2335-7
$32.95 pb
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A History of Rural America third edition
American History In the Looking Glass Mirrors and Identity in Early America
Rebecca K. Shrum How mirrors shaped human identity in North America from the earliest European explorations. 2017
232 pp., 52 halftones, 1 line drawing $54.95 hc Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2312-8
Undermined in Coal Country On the Measures in a Working Land
Bill Conlogue “Bill Conlogue’s insightful book masterfully takes stock of transformations in the region’s present by uncovering much of its forgotten past.”—John Bodnar, author of Our Towns: Remembering Community in Indiana 2017
240 pp., 19 b&w photos, 2 maps $32.95 hc Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2318-0
A Bloodless Victory The Battle of New Orleans in History and Memory
Joseph F. Stoltz III Exploring the changing narrative of the Battle of New Orleans through two centuries of commemoration.
Johns Hopkins Books on the War of 1812, Donald R. Hickey, Series Editor 2017
192 pp., 13 halftones
978-1-4214-2302-9
$39.95 hc
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Young William James Thinking Paul J. Croce How did youthful struggle give rise to the William James of philosophical legend and popularity? 2017
392 pp., 16 b&w photos
978-1-4214-2365-4
$54.95 hc
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A Paris Life, A Baltimore Treasure Johns Hopkins University Press 4
The Remarkable Lives of George A. Lucas and His Art Collection
Stanley Mazaroff The gripping biography of a man and his passion for art. 2018
352 pp., 36 color illus., 72 b&w illus., 1 line drawing $64.95 hc Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2444-6
American History The Secret History of the Jersey Devil How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster
Brian Regal and Frank J. Esposito A provocative look at the mystery surrounding the Jersey Devil, a beast born in colonial times that haunts the corners of the Pine Barrens—and the American imagination—to this day. 2018
160 pp., 17 halftones, 1 map
978-1-4214-2489-7
$24.95 hc
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Switching Sides How a Generation of Historians Lost Sympathy for the Victims of the Salem Witch Hunt
Tony Fels Why have so many recent scholars of colonial witchcraft written sympathetically about the accusers while ignoring their victims? 2017
280 pp., 3 maps, 3 charts, 1 graph $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2437-8
HOW THINGS WORKED Robin Einhorn and Richard R. John, Series Editors Democracy’s Schools
The New Deal’s Forest Army
Before the Refrigerator
The Rise of Public Education in America
How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked
How We Used to Get Ice
Johann N. Neem The unknown history of American public education. 2017
256 pp., 9 halftones
978-1-4214-2321-0
$22.95 pb
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Benjamin F. Alexander How the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed, rejuvenated, and protected American forests and parks at the height of the Great Depression.
Jonathan Rees How increased access to ice— decades before refrigeration— transformed American life. 2018 136 pp. 10 b&w illus., 2 maps
978-1-4214-2459-0
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2018 192 pp. 16 b&w illus., 1 line drawing
978-1-4214-2456-9
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American History Building Washington Engineering and Construction of the New Federal City, 1790–1840
Robert J. Kapsch A richly illustrated behind-the-scenes tour of how the nation’s capital was built. 2018
384 pp., 38 color illus., 83 b&w illus. $69.95 hc Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2487-3
Proving Ground Expertise and Appalachian Landscapes
Edward Slavishak Disrupting the intervenor narrative in Appalachian studies. 2018
240 pp., 16 b&w illus.
978-1-4214-2539-9
$49.95 hc
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The Second Seminole War and the Limits of American Aggression C. S. Monaco A major new study of a costly and influential Jacksonian-era war. 2018
304 pp., 10 b&w photos
978-1-4214-2481-1
$39.95 hc
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Sarah Gray Cary from Boston to Grenada Shifting Fortunes of an American Family, 1764–1826
Susan Clair Imbarrato Follow the changing fortunes of an early American family living through tumultuous times. 2018
248 pp., 9 b&w illus., 2 maps $54.95 hc
978-1-4214-2461-3
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WITNESS TO HISTORY Peter Charles Hoffer and Williamjames Hull Hoffer, Series Editors John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835–1850 Peter Charles Hoffer Examining the congressional debates on antislavery petitions before the Civil War. 2017
120 pp., 11 b&w photos
978-1-4214-2388-3
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Selma’s Bloody Sunday Protest, Voting Rights, and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Robert A. Pratt The march from Selma to Montgomery starkly illustrated the claims of the civil rights movement—and the raw brutality of the forces arrayed against it. 2016
160 pp., 10 halftones
978-1-4214-2160-5
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The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 Testing the Constitution
Terri Diane Halperin What happens to democracy when dissent is treated as treason? 2016
168 pp., 2 halftones, 3 line drawings $19.95 pb Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-1969-5
The Fate of the Revolution Virginians Debate the Constitution
Lorri Glover The gripping story of Virginia’s fraught ratification of the U.S. Constitution. 2016
216 pp., 5 halftones, 4 line drawings $19.95 pb Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2002-8
Hell Before Their Very Eyes John C. McManus The life-altering experiences of the American soldiers who liberated three Nazi concentration camps. 2015
208 pp., 10 b&w photos
978-1-4214-1765-3
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American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945
American History New in Paperback The Baltimore Elite Giants Sport and Society in the Age of Negro League Baseball
Bob Luke The true story of the Baltimore Elite Giants. 2009 208 pp., 41 halftones
978-1-4214-2430-9
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The Notorious Mrs. Clem Murder and Money in the Gilded Age
Wendy Gamber Was Nancy Clem a respectable Indianapolis housewife— or a cold-blooded double murderess? 2016
320 pp., 7 halftones, 12 line drawings $18.95 pb Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2427-9
Ethical Imperialism Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965–2009
Zachary M. Schrag “A powerful indictment of the IRB regime.”—Law and Politics Book Review 2010
264 pp.
978-1-4214-2402-6
$24.95 pb
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Reading the Market Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America
Peter Knight America’s fascination with the stock market dates back to the Gilded Age.
New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History Jeffrey Sklansky, Series Editor 2016
336 pp., 19 halftones
978-1-4214-2521-4
$24.95 pb
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Envisioning Black Colleges A History of the United Negro College Fund Johns Hopkins University Press 8
Marybeth Gasman foreword by John R. Thelin
“A vivid and comprehensive account of the history of the United Negro College Fund.”—Teachers College Record 2007
288 pp., 26 halftones, 3 line drawings $24.95 pb Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2514-6
European History Victorians Undone Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
Kathryn Hughes “Intriguing, gleefully contentious and—appropriately enough—fizzing with life, Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while.”—The Daily Mail 2018
432 pp., 65 halftones, 1 map, 22 color plates $29.95 hc Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2570-2
Playboys and Mayfair Men Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London
Angus McLaren The shocking true story of a diamond theft gone wrong. 2017
272 pp., 9 b&w photos, 1 map
978-1-4214-2347-0
$24.95 hc
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Northern Italy in the Roman World From the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity
Carolynn E. Roncaglia An in-depth study of how the Roman Empire influenced life, culture, and politics in northern Italy. 2018
256 pp., 10 halftones, 4 maps $44.95 hc
978-1-4214-2519-1
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Moralizing the Market How Gaullist France Embraced the US Model of Securities Regulation
Yves-Marie Péréon A novel historical perspective on how stock markets influence each other internationally. 2018
224 pp.
978-1-4214-2485-9
$64.95 hc
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Persian Interventions The Achaemenid Empire, Athens, and Sparta, 450–386 BCE
John O. Hyland Persia’s relations with Greek city-states provide a fascinating case study in ancient imperialism. 2017
272 pp., 4 maps
978-1-4214-2370-8
$54.95 hc
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Warrior Pursuits Noble Culture and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France
Brian Sandberg Examines how warrior nobles’ practices of violence shaped provincial society and the royal state. 2010
424 pp., 12 halftones, 1 line drawing $29.95 pb Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2398-2
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine From Madman to Crime Fighter The Scientist in Western Culture
Roslynn D. Haynes The story of the scientist in Western culture, from medieval images of alchemists to present-day depictions of cyberpunks and genetic engineers. 2017
424 pp., 23 halftones
978-1-4214-2304-3
$34.95 pb
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Creatures Born of Mud and Slime The Wonder and Complexity of Spontaneous Generation
Daryn Lehoux How did the concept of spontaneous generation survive for so long?
Singleton Center Books in Premodern Europe 2017
192 pp., 1 halftone
978-1-4214-2381-4
$44.95 hc
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Tiger Check Automating the US Air Force Fighter Pilot in Air-to-Air Combat, 1950–1980
Steven A. Fino How did American fighter pilots respond to the challenges posed by increasing automation? 2017
448 pp., 45 b&w photos, 30 line drawings $79.95 hc Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2327-2
Hydrocarbon Nation How Energy Security Made Our Nation Great and Climate Security Will Save Us
Thor Hogan Understanding the complex history of US fossil fuel use can help us build a sustainable future. 2018
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448 pp., 19 line drawings, 2 charts $59.95 hc Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2506-1
The Problem with Pilots How Physicians, Engineers, and Airpower Enthusiasts Redefined Flight
Timothy P. Schultz An illuminating look at how human vulnerability led to advances in aviation technology. 2018
280 pp., 10 halftones
978-1-4214-2479-8
$44.95 hc
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race
Priscilla J. McMillan foreword by Martin J. Sherwin, coauthor of the Pulitzer Prize–winning American Prometheus
The true story of the government conspiracy to bring down J. Robert Oppenheimer, America’s most famous scientist.
Johns Hopkins Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs Martin J. Sherwin, Series Editor 2018
416 pp., 23 b&w photos
978-1-4214-2567-2
$29.95 pb
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Our Germans Project Paperclip and the National Security State
Brian E. Crim A gripping history of one of the United States’ most controversial Cold War intelligence operations. 2018
264 pp., 12 b&w photos
978-1-4214-2439-2
$39.95 hc
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The Textbook and the Lecture Education in the Age of New Media
Norm Friesen Why do the basic technologies of education—the book and the lecture— endure in our digital age?
Tech.edu: A Hopkins Series on Education and Technology 2017
192 pp., 25 halftones, 5 line drawings $32.95 hc Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2433-0
A Telephone for the World Iridium, Motorola, and the Making of a Global Age
Martin Collins In a post–Cold War world, the Iridium satellite network revealed a new age of globalization. 2018
280 pp., 18 b&w photos, 5 line drawings $44.95 hc Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2483-5
Back on Track American Railroad Accidents and Safety, 1965–2015 A fascinating account of one of America’s most important industries and its dangers.
Hagley Library Studies in Business,Technology, and Politics Richard R. John and Erik Rau, Series Editors 2018
304 pp., 26 b&w photos, 17 line drawings $59.95 hc Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2415-6
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Instrumental Intimacy
Fixing the Poor
EEG Wearables and Neuroscientific Control
Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century
Melissa M. Littlefield
Molly Ladd-Taylor
A critical examination of the rise of wearable EEG monitors. 2018
176 pp., 12 halftones
978-1-4214-2465-1
$44.95 hc
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How state welfare politics—not just concerns with “race improvement”—led to eugenic sterilization practices. 2017
304 pp., 10 halftones, 2 maps, 1 graph
978-1-4214-2372-2
$54.95 hc
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On the Other Hand Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History
Howard I. Kushner Does being left-handed make a person different in any way that matters? 2017
216 pp., 15 halftones, 4 line drawings
978-1-4214-2333-3
$26.95 hc
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Essential Readings in Medicine and Religion Gary B. Ferngren and Ekaterina N. Lomperis An indispensible collection of sources chronicling the relationship between medicine and religion from ancient to modern times. 2017
296 pp.
978-1-4214-2290-9
$32.95 pb
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The Lomidine Files The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa
Guillaume Lachenal translated by Noémi Tousignant
Tracing the nightmarish effects of the “wonder drug” Lomidine in preventing sleeping sickness in Africa. 2017
240 pp., 15 b&w photos, 2 maps
978-1-4214-2323-4
$34.95 hc
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Burdens of War Creating the United States Veterans Health System
Jessica L. Adler Drawing readers into a critical debate about the level of responsibility America bears for wounded service members, Burdens of War is a unique and moving case study.
Reconfiguring American Political History Ronald P. Formisano, Paul Bourke, Donald DeBats, and Paula M. Baker, Series Founders 2017
368 pp., 4 b&w photos, 3 b&w illus., 1 map, 6 graphs
978-1-4214-2287-9
$49.95 hc
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Artificial Hearts The Allure and Ambivalence of a Controversial Medical Technology
Shelley McKellar A comprehensive history of the development of artificial hearts in the United States. 2018
376 pp., 32 b&w illus., 9 color plates $54.95 hc Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2355-5
Imperfect Pregnancies A History of Birth Defects and Prenatal Diagnosis
Ilana Löwy How has prenatal testing, once offered only for high-risk pregnancies, become standard medical care for pregnant women today? 2017
296 pp.
978-1-4214-2363-0
$44.95 hc
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Cesarean Section An American History of Risk, Technology, and Consequence
Jacqueline H. Wolf Cesarean Section is the definitive history of this surgical procedure and its use in North America. 2018
368 pp., 17 halftones, 8 graphs
978-1-4214-2552-8
$49.95 hc
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New in Paperback DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton Geology and Power in Early New York
David I. Spanagel How did geology and politics inform scientific ideas and contribute to New York’s prominence in the early nineteenth century? 2014
284 pp., 7 halftones, 3 line drawings $24.95 pb Also available as an e-book
978-1-4214-2400-2
Making Tobacco Bright Creating an American Commodity, 1617–1937
Barbara Hahn
Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Merritt Roe Smith, Series Editor 2011
248 pp., 21 b&w illus.
978-1-4214-2522-1
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In her sweeping history of the American tobacco industry, Hahn traces the emergence of the tobacco plant’s many varietal types, arguing that they are products not of nature but of economic relations and continued and intense market regulation.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine New in Paperback The Cybernetics Moment Immunity Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age
Ronald R. Kline How did cybernetics and information theory arise, and how did they come to dominate fields as diverse as engineering, biology, and the social sciences?
New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History, Jeffrey Sklansky, Series Editor 2015
352 pp., 6 halftones, 4 line drawings
978-1-4214-2424-8
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The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God Massimo Mazzotti The fascinating true story of female mathematician Maria Agnesi.
Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics Ronald Calinger, Series Editor 2007
240 pp., 7 halftones
978-1-4214-2515-3
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The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs David S. Barnes “Tells an intriguing tale and prompts us to ask how our own cultural contexts affect our views and actions regarding environmental and infectious scourges here and now.” —New England Journal of Medicine 2006 328 pp., 11 halftones, 4 line drawings
978-1-4214-2565-8
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Pathologist of the Mind Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry Johns Hopkins University Press 14
S. D. Lamb “Many, perhaps most, psychiatrists know that Meyer is an important figure in American psychiatry, but usually don’t quite know why. Dr. Lamb’s superb book makes the reasons pellucidly clear.”—Francis Mark Mondimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 2014
320 pp., 16 halftones, 6 line drawings
978-1-4214-2513-9
$22.95 pb
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William E. Paul, MD A leading figure in immunology takes readers inside the remarkably powerful human immune system. 2015
280 pp., 14 halftones, 10 line drawings
978-1-4214-2528-3
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Engineering Victory How Technology Won the Civil War
Thomas F. Army, Jr. “A comprehensive, highly erudite history of military engineering in the Civil War. The standard work against which all others are measured.”—Michael C. C. Adams, author of Living Hell: The Dark Side of the Civil War
Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology Merritt Roe Smith, Series Editor 2016
392 pp., 18 halftones, 10 maps
978-1-4214-2516-0
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Journals Eighteenth Century Studies Sean Moore, Editor Published quarterly, Volume 51 (2018) Print ISSN: 0013-2586 Online ISSN: 1086-315X
Technology and Culture Suzanne Moon, Editor-in-Chief Published quarterly, Volume 59 (2018) Print ISSN: 0040-165X Online ISSN: 1097-3729
American Jewish History Kirsten Fermaglich, Adam Mendelsohn and Daniel Soyer, Editors Published quarterly, Volume 102 (2018) Print ISSN: 0164-0178 Online ISSN: 1086-3141
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Clare Anderson, Editor Published online three times a year, Volume 19 (2018) Online ISSN: 1532-5768
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