University Of Pittsburgh Press imprint: 402 books
The Open Invitation
Activist Video, Mexico, and the Politics of Affect
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
The Open Invitation explores the relationship between prefigurative politics and activist video. Schiwy analyzes activist videos from the 2006 uprising in Oaxaca, the Zapatista’s Other Campaign, as well as collaborative and community video from the Yucatán. Schiwy argues that transnational activist...
Healing Memories
Puerto Rican Women's Literature in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Using an interdisciplinary approach, Healing Memories analyzes the ways that Puerto Rican women authors use their literary works to challenge historical methodologies that have silenced the historical experiences of Puerto Rican women in the United States. Following Aurora Levins Morales's alternative...
by Colleen J. McElroy
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
The poems in Here I Throw Down My Heart prompt readers to see beyond the surface of images, whether that surface is a uniform, a prescribed setting, a familiar geography, or the surface that evokes the most social commentary, skin—the body itself. The modern world moves at a greater speed than the...
by Mihaela Moscaliuc
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
The poems in Immigrant Model explore issues of individual and communal identity in the face of conflict, conflicting "truths" or histories, and uprootedness. They explore the notion of homeland as it relates to one's roots, adopted space, psychological terrain, gendered body. If the book...
by Richard Shelton
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2007
While Shelton has been known primarily for his poems dealing with the landscape of the Southwest and the destruction of that landscape, the poems in this book are much more far-ranging, including many poems dealing with soocial issues (the issue of illegal immigration on our southern border, homelessness),...
by Thomas Bell
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1941
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1941
Out of This Furnace is Thomas Bell’s most compelling achievement. Its story of three generations of an immigrant Slovak family -- the Dobrejcaks -- still stands as a fresh and extraordinary accomplishment.
The novel begins in the mid-1880s with the naive blundering career of Djuro Kracha....
by Joan Naviyuk Kane
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Winner of the 2012 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry
Selected by Arthur Sze
Hyperboreal originates from diasporas. It attempts to make sense of change and to prepare for cultural, climate, and political turns that are sure to continue. The poems originate from the hope that our lives may be enriched...
by Richard Blanco
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2012
Family continues to be a wellspring of inspiration and learning for Blanco. His third book of poetry, Looking for The Gulf Motel, is a genealogy of the heart, exploring how his family’s emotion legacy has shaped—and continues shaping—his perspectives. The collection is presented in three movements,...
Hard Times
A Novel of Liberals and Radicals in 1860s Russia
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Vasily Sleptsov was a Russian social activist and writer during the politically charged 1860s, known as the “era of great reforms,” and marked by Alexander II’s emancipation of the serfs and the relaxation lifting of censorship. Popular in his day, Sleptsov’s contemporaries Leo Tolstoy and...
Governing by Design
Architecture, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
Governing by Design offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century architectural history. It disputes the primacy placed on individuals in the design and planning process and instead looks to the larger influences of politics, culture, economics, and globalization to uncover the roots of how our...
Science Museums in Transition
Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Winner, Outstanding Academic Title 2017, Choice Magazine
The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic shift in the display and dissemination of natural knowledge across Britain and America, from private collections of miscellaneous artifacts and objects to public exhibitions and state-sponsored...
Rise of the Modern Hospital
An Architectural History of Health and Healing, 1870-1940
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Rise of the Modern Hospital is a focused examination of hospital design in the United States from the 1870s through the 1940s. This understudied period witnessed profound changes in hospitals as they shifted from last charitable resorts for the sick poor to premier locations of cutting-edge medical...
Swans of the Kremlin
Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Classical ballet was perhaps the most visible symbol of aristocratic culture and its isolation from the rest of Russian society under the tsars. In the wake of the October Revolution, ballet, like all of the arts, fell under the auspices of the Soviet authorities. In light of these events, many feared...
Race and the Chilean Miracle
Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
The economic reforms imposed by Augusto Pinochet’s regime (1973–1990) are often credited with transforming Chile into a global economy and setting the stage for a peaceful transition to democracy, individual liberty, and the recognition of cultural diversity. The famed economist Milton Friedman...