How Things Worked

Collection by Johns Hopkins University Press, and 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
Aug 2018 - Johns Hopkins University Press
$59.95 USD - Hardback
$19.95 USD - Paperback / softback
$19.95 USD - Electronic book text
9781421424583 : before-the-refrigerator-rees

Before the Refrigerator

How We Used to Get Ice
Jonathan Rees
Mar 2018 - Johns Hopkins University Press
$54.95 USD - Hardback
$19.95 USD - Paperback / softback
$19.95 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
Feb 2018 - Johns Hopkins University Press
$55.00 USD - Hardback
$19.95 USD - Paperback / softback
$19.95 USD - Electronic book text
9781421423203 : democracys-schools-neem

Democracy's Schools

The Rise of Public Education in America
Johann N. Neem
Aug 2017 - Johns Hopkins University Press
$54.95 USD - Hardback
$22.95 USD - Paperback / softback
$22.95 USD - Electronic book text
9781421421742 : other-peoples-money-murphy

Other People's Money

How Banking Worked in the Early American Republic
Sharon Ann Murphy
Mar 2017 - Johns Hopkins University Press
$55.00 USD - Hardback
$19.95 USD - Paperback / softback
$19.95 USD - Electronic book text
9781421418551 : crash-payne

Crash!

How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked
Phillip G. Payne
Dec 2015 - Johns Hopkins University Press
$45.00 USD - Hardback
$19.95 USD - Paperback / softback
$19.95 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
$44.95 USD - Hardback
$19.95 USD - Paperback / softback
$19.95 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 and John David Smith
Jun 2014 - Johns Hopkins University Press
$39.95 USD - Hardback
$19.95 USD - Paperback / softback
$19.95 USD - Electronic book text
9781421413686 : encountering-ellis-island-bayor

Encountering Ellis Island

How European Immigrants Entered America
Ronald H. Bayor
May 2014 - Johns Hopkins University Press
$22.95 USD - Paperback / softback
$22.95 USD - Electronic book text
9781421413563 : home-fires-adams

Home Fires

How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century
Sean Patrick Adams
May 2014 - Johns Hopkins University Press
$44.95 USD - Hardback
$22.95 USD - Paperback / softback
$22.95 USD - Electronic book text