University Of Pittsburgh Press imprint: 402 books
Overtaken by the Night
One Russian's Journey through Peace, War, Revolution, and Terror
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Vladimir Fedorovich Dzhunkovsky was a witness to Russia’s unfolding tragedy—from Tsar Alexander II’s Great Reforms, through world war, revolution, the rise of a new regime, and finally, his country’s descent into terror under Stalin. But Dzhunkovsky was not just a passive observer—he was...
Buying into English
Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2008
Many developing countries have little choice but to “buy into English” as a path to ideological and material betterment.
Based on extensive fieldwork in Slovakia, Prendergast assembles a rich ethnographic study that records the thoughts, aspirations, and concerns of Slovak nationals, language...
Designing Resilience
Preparing for Extreme Events
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2010
In the wake of severe climatic events and terrorist acts, and the emergence of dangerous technologies, communities, nations, and global organizations have diligently sought to create strategies to prepare for such events. Designing Resilience presents case studies of extreme events and analyzes the...
Metropolitan Belgrade
Culture and Class in Interwar Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Winner of theMihajlo Misa DjordjevicBook Prize**awarded by the North American Society for Serbian Studies
Metropolitan Belgrade presents a sociocultural history of the city as an entertainment mecca during the 1920s and 1930s. It unearths the ordinary and extraordinary leisure activities that...
Between Europe and Asia
The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Between Europe and Asia analyzes the origins and development of Eurasianism, an intellectual movement that proclaimed the existence of Eurasia, a separate civilization coinciding with the former Russian Empire. The essays in the volume explore the historical roots, the heyday of the movement in...
Tashkent
Forging a Soviet City, 1930–1966
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2010
Paul Stronski tells the fascinating story of Tashkent, an ethnically diverse, primarily Muslim city that became the prototype for the Soviet-era reimagining of urban centers in Central Asia. Based on extensive research in Russian and Uzbek archives, Stronski shows us how Soviet officials, planners,...
by Jan Beatty
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
In Jan Beatty’s fourth collection, The Switching/Yard, she takes us through the ravaged landscape of the American West. In unflinching lines of burning lyric and relentless narrative, she forges the constructed body into movement. What is still stereotyped as the romantic journey—now becomes as...
James Watt, Chemist
Understanding the Origins of the Steam Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
In the Victorian era, James Watt became an iconic engineer, but in his own time he was also an influential chemist. Miller examines Watt’s illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt’s conception of steam engineering relied upon chemical understandings.
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by Lynne Anne Blom, L. Tarin Chaplin
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1982
A comprehensive book that covers all aspects of choreography from the most fundamental techniques to highly sophisticated artistic concerns. The Intimate Act of Choreography presents the what and how of choreography in a workable format that begins with basics- - time, space, force -- and moves...
South Asian in the Mid-South
Migrations of Literacies
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Winner of the 2017 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award.
In an age of global anxiety and suspicion, South Asian immigrants juggle multiple cultural and literate traditions in Mid-South America. In this study Iswari P. Pandey looks deeply into this community to track the migration of literacies,...
Writing against Racial Injury
The Politics of Asian American Student Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Writing against Racial Injury recalls the story of Asian American student rhetoric at the site of language and literacy education in post-1960s California. What emerged in the Asian American movement was a recurrent theme in U.S. history: conflicts over language and literacy difference masked wider...
by Moises Arce
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2014
Natural resource extraction has fueled protest movements in Latin America and existing research has drawn considerable scholarly attention to the politics of antimarket contention at the national level, particularly in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina. Despite its residents reporting the third-highest...
The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709-1876
Central Asia in the Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
This book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In presenting the first English-language history of the Khanate of Khoqand (1709–1876), Scott C. Levi examines the rise of that extraordinarily dynamic state in the...
Crossing Borders
Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Crossing Borders deconstructs contemporary theories of Soviet history from the revolution through the Stalin period, and offers new interpretations based on a transnational perspective. To Michael David-Fox, Soviet history was shaped by interactions across its borders. By reexamining conceptions of...