University Of Pittsburgh Press: 402 books
Making Stars Physical
The Astronomy of Sir John Herschel
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2018
Making Stars Physical offers the first extensive look at the astronomical career of John Herschel, son of William Herschel and one of the leading scientific figures in Britain throughout much of the nineteenth century. Herschel’s astronomical career is usually relegated to a continuation of his...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Perhaps no other activity is more synonymous with passion, identity, bodily ideals, and the power of place than sport. As the essays in this volume show, the function of sport as a historical and cultural marker is particularly relevant in Latin America. From the late nineteenth century to the present,...
Tangible Belonging
Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Tangible Belonging presents a compelling historical and ethnographic study of the German speakers in Hungary, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Through this tumultuous period in European history, the Hungarian-German leadership tried to organize German-speaking villagers, Hungary...
Field Life
Science in the American West during the Railroad Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Field Life examines the practice of science in the field in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West between the 1860s and the 1910s, when the railroad was the dominant form of long-distance transportation. Grounded in approaches from environmental history and the history of technology,...
Dividing Hispaniola
The Dominican Republic's Border Campaign against Haiti, 1930-1961
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
The island of Hispaniola is split by a border that divides the Dominican Republic and Haiti. This border has been historically contested and largely porous. Dividing Hispaniola is a study of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s scheme, during the mid-twentieth century, to create and reinforce a...
Toward a Civil Discourse
Rhetoric and Fundamentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2006
Toward a Civil Discourse examines how, in the current political climate, Americans find it difficult to discuss civic issues frankly and openly with one another. Because America is dominated by two powerful discourses--liberalism and Christian fundamentalism, each of which paints a very different...
Ideals of the Body
Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet these well-known developments in public health built on a previous moment of anxiety about the hygiene of modern city dwellers. Amid...
Xuxub Must Die
The Lost Histories of a Murder on the Yucatan
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2004
Today, foreigners travel to the Yucatan for ruins, temples, and pyramids, white sand beaches and clear blue water. One hundred years ago, they went for cheap labor, an abundance of land, and the opportunity to make a fortune exporting cattle, henequen fiber, sugarcane, or rum. Sometimes they found...
Ambient Rhetoric
The Attunements of Rhetorical Being
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
In Ambient Rhetoric, Thomas Rickert seeks to dissolve the boundaries of the rhetorical tradition and its basic dichotomy of subject and object. With the advent of new technologies, new media, and the dispersion of human agency through external information sources, rhetoric can no longer remain tied...
Socialist Fun
Youth, Consumption, and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945–1970
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Most narratives depict Soviet Cold War cultural activities and youth groups as drab and dreary, militant and politicized. In this study Gleb Tsipursky challenges these stereotypes in a revealing portrayal of Soviet youth and state-sponsored popular culture.
The primary local...
Refining Nature
Standard Oil and the limits of Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
The Standard Oil Company emerged out of obscurity in the 1860s to capture 90 percent of the petroleum refining industry in the United States during the Gilded Age. John D. Rockefeller, the company’s founder, organized the company around an almost religious dedication to principles of efficiency....
Living with Lead
An Environmental History of Idaho's Coeur D'Alenes, 1885-2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The Coeur d’Alenes, a twenty-five by ten mile portion of the Idaho Panhandle, is home to one of the most productive mining districts in world history. Historically the globe’s richest silver district and also one of the nation’s biggest lead and zinc producers, the Coeur d’Alenes’ legacy...
Kosovo and Serbia
Contested Options and Shared Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Following the 1992 breakup of Yugoslavia, the region descended into a series of bloody conflicts marked by intense ethnic and religious hatreds. Kosovo emerged at the epicenter of these disputes and the site of innumerable human rights violations, as Serbia, united with Montenegro at the time, sought...
by Pauline Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
During the 1990s, there was a general consensus that Central Asia was witnessing an Islamic revival after independence, and that this occurrence would follow similar events throughout the Islamic world in the prior two decades, which had negative effects on both social and political development. Twenty...