How Things Worked

Collection by The Johns Hopkins University Press
10 Titles

Titles from How Things Worked

9781421425894 : up-the-trail-lehman

Up the Trail

How Texas Cowboys Herded Longhorns and Became an American Icon
Tim Lehman
Jul 2018 - The Johns Hopkins University Press
$62.00 USD - Hardback
$22.00 USD - Paperback / softback
$22.00 USD - Electronic book text
9781421424583 : before-the-refrigerator-rees

Before the Refrigerator

How We Used to Get Ice
Jonathan Rees
Feb 2018 - The Johns Hopkins University Press
$57.00 USD - Hardback
$22.00 USD - Paperback / softback
$22.00 USD - Electronic book text
9781421424552 : the-new-deals-forest-army-alexander

The New Deal's Forest Army

How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked
Benjamin F. Alexander
Jan 2018 - The Johns Hopkins University Press
$57.00 USD - Hardback
$22.00 USD - Paperback / softback
$22.00 USD - Electronic book text
9781421423203 : democracys-schools-neem

Democracy's Schools

The Rise of Public Education in America
Johann N. Neem
Jun 2017 - The Johns Hopkins University Press
$57.00 USD - Hardback
$25.00 USD - Paperback / softback
$25.00 USD - Electronic book text
9781421421742 : other-peoples-money-murphy

Other People's Money

How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic
Sharon Ann Murphy
Feb 2017 - The Johns Hopkins University Press
$57.00 USD - Hardback
$22.00 USD - Paperback / softback
$22.00 USD - Electronic book text
9781421418551 : crash-payne

Crash!

How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked
Phillip G. Payne
Nov 2015 - The Johns Hopkins University Press
$47.00 USD - Hardback
$22.00 USD - Paperback / softback
$22.00 USD - Electronic book text
9781421414508 : sod-busting-danbom

Sod Busting

How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains
David B. Danbom
Jul 2014 - The Johns Hopkins University Press
$47.00 USD - Hardback
$22.00 USD - Paperback / softback
$22.00 USD - Electronic book text
9781421413594 : soldiering-for-freedom-luke-smith

Soldiering for Freedom

How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops
Bob Luke, John David Smith
May 2014 - The Johns Hopkins University Press
$42.00 USD - Hardback
$22.00 USD - Paperback / softback
$22.00 USD - Electronic book text
9781421413686 : encountering-ellis-island-bayor

Encountering Ellis Island

How European Immigrants Entered America
Ronald H. Bayor
Apr 2014 - The Johns Hopkins University Press
$25.00 USD - Paperback / softback
$25.00 USD - Electronic book text
9781421413563 : home-fires-adams

Home Fires

How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century
Sean Patrick Adams
Mar 2014 - The Johns Hopkins University Press
$47.00 USD - Hardback
$25.00 USD - Paperback / softback
$25.00 USD - Electronic book text