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      Hopkins Press Podcast 4.9: Yumi Roth & Emmanuel David on Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill's Wild West
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    The Forms of Informal Empire: Britain, Latin America, and Nineteenth-Century Literature
      
    
  
                A few years ago, at a get-together in Santiago, Chile, I met a local man I’ll call Luis. Amid small talk, he mentioned that he supervises a number of his family’s copper mines in the north. When I asked him how his family came to own them, he shrugged and said...
          
  
  
    Downward Mobility - Q&A with author Katherine Binhammer
      
    
  
                Katherine Binhammer answers questions about her new book Downward Mobility: The Form of Capital and the Sentimental Novel. Your book on downward mobility in eighteenth-century literature was published right before a pandemic-induced recession. How might...
          
  
  
    The New Health Economy, the Private Sector, and The Road to Universal Health Coverage
      
    
  
                Understanding the roles of the private sector as part of the roadmap to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) at the country level will be indispensable to helping most countries achieve UHC by 2030. A new book edited by Jeffrey L. Sturchio (Rabin Martin), Ilona...
          
  
  
    Maryland: A History
      
    
  
                In William Faulkner’s well-known aphorism “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Faulkner’s understanding of history forcefully applies to the story of Maryland during the Civil War. If we had forgotten his point, the recent controversy over the future...