University Of Pittsburgh Press imprint: 402 books
Unruly Rhetorics
Protest, Persuasion, and Publics
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
What forces bring ordinary people together in public to make their voices heard? What means do they use to break through impediments to democratic participation?
Unruly Rhetorics is a collection of essays from scholars in rhetoric, communication, and writing studies inquiring into conditions for activism,...
by David Harris Ebenbach
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2005
Winner of the 2005 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
Between Camelots is about the struggle to forge relationships and the spaces that are left when that effort falls short. In the title story, a man at a backyard barbecue waits for a blind date who never shows up. He meets a stranger who advises...
Myths of Harmony
Race and Republicanism during the Age of Revolution, Colombia, 1795-1831
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2007
This book centers on a foundational moment for Latin American racial constructs. While most contemporary scholarship has focused the explanation for racial tolerance-or its lack-in the colonial period, Marixa Lasso argues that the key to understanding the origins of modern race relations are to...
Scientific Pluralism Reconsidered
A New Approach to the (Dis)Unity of Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Can we expect our scientific theories to make up a unified structure, or do they form a kind of “patchwork” whose pieces remain independent from each other? Does the proliferation of sometimes-incompatible representations of the same phenomenon compromise the ability of science to deliver reliable...
Recreating Newton
Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2007
Higgitt examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century. She focuses on 1820–1870, a period that saw the creation of the specialized and secularized role of the "scientist." At the same time, researchers gained better access to Newton's archives. These were used both...
For a Proper Home
Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960-2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
From 1967 to 1973, a period that culminated in the socialist project of Salvador Allende, nearly 400,000 low-income Chileans illegally seized parcels of land on the outskirts of Santiago. Remarkably, today almost all of these individuals live in homes with property titles. As Edward Murphy shows,...
Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru
Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2010
By the end of the eighteenth century, Peru had witnessed the decline of its once-thriving silver industry, and it had barely begun to recover from massive population losses due to smallpox and other diseases. At the time, it was widely believed that economic salvation was contingent upon increasing...
by Daniel Borzutzky
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
From the author of The Performance of Becoming Human, winner of the National Book Award for poetry
Lake Michigan, a series of 19 lyric poems, imagines a prison camp located on the beaches of a Chicago that is privatized, racially segregated, and overrun by a brutal police force. Thinking...
by Efram Sera-Shriar
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Victorian anthropology has been derided as an "armchair practice," distinct from the scientific discipline of the twentieth century. But the observational practices that characterized the study of human diversity developed from the established sciences of natural history, geography and medicine....
City on Fire
Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the risk of fire while also breeding a culture of fear. Through an array of archival sources, Anna Rose Alexander argues that fire became a catalyst for social...
Espionage, Statecraft, and the Theory of Reporting
A Philosophical Essay on Intelligence Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
Everything we know about what goes on in the world comes to us through reports, information transmitted through human communication. We rely on reports, which can take any number of forms, to convey useful information, and we derive knowledge from that information. It's no surprise, then, that reporting...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Making Citizens in Argentina charts the evolving meanings of citizenship in Argentina from the 1880s to the 1980s. Against the backdrop of immigration, science, race, sport, populist rule, and dictatorship, the contributors analyze the power of the Argentine state and other social actors to set the...
Soviet Space Mythologies
Public Images, Private Memories, and the Making of a Cultural Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
From the start, the Soviet human space program had an identity crisis. Were cosmonauts heroic pilots steering their craft through the dangers of space, or were they mere passengers riding safely aboard fully automated machines? Tensions between Soviet cosmonauts and space engineers were reflected...
Seeking the Greatest Good
The Conservation Legacy of Gifford Pinchot
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
President John F. Kennedy officially dedicated the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies on September 24, 1963 to further the legacy and activism of conservationist Gifford Pinchot (1865–1946). Pinchot was the first chief of the United States Forest Service, appointed by Theodore Roosevelt...