University Of Pittsburgh Press imprint: 402 books
Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America
From Resisting Neoliberalism to the Second Incorporation
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Neoliberalism changed the face of Latin America and left average citizens struggling to cope in many ways. Popular sectors were especially hard hit as wages declined and unemployment increased. The backlash to neoliberalism in the form of popular protest and electoral mobilization opened space for...
Nowa Huta
Generations of Change in a Model Socialist Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
In 1949 construction of the planned town of Nowa Huta began on the outskirts of Kraków, Poland. Its centerpiece, the Lenin Steelworks, promised a secure future for workers and their families. By the 1980s, however, the rise of the Solidarity movement and the ensuing shock therapy program of the early...
Styles of Reasoning in the British Life Sciences
Shared Assumptions, 1820-1858
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
Elwick explores how the concept of "compound individuality" brought together life scientists working in pre-Darwinian London. Scientists conducting research in comparative anatomy, physiology, cellular microscopy, embryology and the neurosciences repeatedly stated that plants and animals...
Living Language in Kazakhstan
The Dialogic Emergence of an Ancestral Worldview
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Eva-Marie Dubuisson provides a fascinating anthropological inquiry into the deeply ingrained presence of ancestors within the cultural, political, and spiritual discourse of Kazakhs. In a climate of authoritarianism and economic uncertainty, many people in this region turn to their forebearers for...
Power on the Hudson
Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The beauty of the Hudson River Valley was a legendary subject for artists during the nineteenth century. They portrayed its bucolic settings and humans in harmony with nature as the physical manifestation of God’s work on earth. More than a hundred years later, those sentiments would be tested as...
by Gábor Rittersporn
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Anguish, Anger, and Folkways in Soviet Russia offers original perspectives on the politics of everyday life in the Soviet Union by closely examining the coping mechanisms individuals and leaders alike developed as they grappled with the political, social, and intellectual challenges the system presented...
Practicing Islam
Knowledge, Experience, and Social Navigation in Kyrgyzstan
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
David W. Montgomery presents a rich ethnographic study on the practice and meaning of Islamic life in Kyrgyzstan. As he shows, becoming and being a Muslim are based on knowledge acquired from the surrounding environment, enabled through the practice of doing. Through these acts, Islam is imbued in...
When They Hid the Fire
A History of Electricity and Invisible Energy in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
When They Hid the Fire examines the American social perceptions of electricity as an energy technology that were adopted between the mid-nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. Arguing that both technical and cultural factors played a role, Daniel French shows how electricity became...
The Andean Wonder Drug
Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In the eighteenth century, malaria was a prevalent and deadly disease, and the only effective treatment was found in the Andean forests of Spanish America: a medicinal bark harvested from cinchona trees that would later give rise to the antimalarial drug quinine. In 1751, the Spanish Crown asserted...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2016
The century from 1750 to 1850 was a period of dramatic transformations in world history, fostering several types of revolutionary change beyond the political landscape. Independence movements in Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the world were catalysts for radical economic, social, and cultural...
The Imagined Empire
Balloon Enlightenments in Revolutionary Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
The hot-air balloon, invented by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, launched for the second time just days before the Treaty of Paris would end the American Revolutionary War. The ascent in Paris—a technological marvel witnessed by a diverse crowd that included Benjamin Franklin—highlighted celebrations...
The Hernandez Brothers
Love, Rockets, and Alternative Comics
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This study offers a critical examination of the work of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Mexican-American brothers whose graphic novels are highly influential. The Hernandez brothers started in the alt-comics scene, where their ‘Love and Rockets’ series quickly gained prominence. They have since published...
Communicating Physics
The Production, Circulation, and Appropriation of Ganot's Textbooks in France and England, 1851–1887
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
WINNER OF THE MARC-AUGUSTE PICTET PRIZE, 2010
The textbooks written by Adolphe Ganot (1804–1887) played a major role in shaping the way physics was taught in the nineteenth century. Ganot's books were translated from their original French into more than ten languages, including English, allowing...
by Sarah C. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The Victorians are known for their commitment to materialism, evidenced by the dominance of empiricism in the sciences and realism in fiction. Yet there were other strains of thinking during the period in the physical sciences, social sciences, and literature that privileged the spaces between the...