University Of Pittsburgh Press: 402 books
Authoritarian Russia
Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Russia today represents one of the major examples of the phenomenon of “electoral authoritarianism” which is characterized by adopting the trappings of democratic institutions (such as elections, political parties, and a legislature) and enlisting the service of the country’s essentially authoritarian...
by Denise Duhamel
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award.
In Blowout, Denise Duhamel asks the same question that Frankie Lyman & the Teenagers asked back in 1954—"Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" Duhamel's poems readily admit that she is a love-struck fool, but also embrace the "crazy wisdom"...
Typhoid in Uppingham
Analysis of a Victorian Town and School in Crisis, 1875–1877
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
After the Public Heath Acts of 1872 and 1875, British local authorities bore statutory obligations to carry out sanitary improvements. Richardson explores public health strategy and central-local government relations during the mid-nineteenth-century, using the experience of Uppingham, England, as...
Despite Cultures
Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Despite Cultures examines the strategies and realities of the Soviet state-building project in Tajikistan during the 1920s and 1930s. Based on extensive archival research, Botakoz Kassymbekova analyzes the tactics of Soviet officials at the center and periphery that produced, imitated, and improvised...
A Negotiated Landscape
The Transformation of San Francisco’s Waterfront since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2016
A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco’s iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline in 1950 to the turn of the millennium. What was once a major shipping port is now best known for leisure and entertainment.
To understand this landscape Jasper...
Building Modern Turkey
State, Space, and Ideology in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Building Modern Turkey offers a critical account of how the built environment mediated Turkey’s transition from a pluralistic (multiethnic and multireligious) empire into a modern, homogenized nation-state following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I. Zeynep Kezer argues...
by Ilan Stavans
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
The Wall is a poetic exploration—across time, space, and language, real as well as metaphorical—of the U.S.-Mexican wall dividing the two civilizations, of similar walls (Jerusalem, China, Berlin, Warsaw, etc.) in history, and of the act of separating people by ideology, class, race, and other...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
This edited volume offers new perspectives from leading scholars on the important work of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539–1616), one of the first Latin American writers to present an intellectual analysis of pre-Columbian history and culture and the ensuing colonial period. To the contributors,...
New World Postcolonial
The Political Thought of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
New World Postcolonial presents the first full-length study to treat both parts of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's foundational text Royal Commentaries of the Incas as a seminal work of political thought in the formation of the early Americas and the early-modern period. It is also among a handful of...
Dancing Into Darkness
Butoh, Zen, and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1999
Dancing Into Darkness is Sondra Horton Fraleigh's chronological diary of her deepening understanding of and appreciation for this art form, as she moves from a position of aesthetic response as an audience member to that of assimilation as a student. As a student of Zen and butoh, Fraleigh witnesses...
by Nicholas Rescher
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Nicholas Rescher presents the first comprehensive chronology of philosophical anecdotes, spanning from antiquity to the current era. He introduces us to the major thinkers, texts, and historical periods of Western philosophy, recounting many of the stories philosophers have used over time to engage...
Improvised Cities
Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2019
Beginning in the 1950s, an explosion in rural-urban migration dramatically increased the population of cities throughout Peru, leading to an acute housing shortage and the proliferation of self-built shelters clustered in barriadas, or squatter settlements. Improvised Cities examines the history of...
Tropic Tendencies
Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
A legacy of slavery, abolition, colonialism, and class struggle has profoundly impacted the people and culture of the Caribbean. In Tropic Tendencies, Kevin Adonis Browne examines the development of an Anglophone Caribbean rhetorical tradition in response to the struggle to make meaning, maintain...
by Ann Jurecic
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
For most of literary history, personal confessions about illness were considered too intimate to share publicly. By the mid-twentieth century, however, a series of events set the stage for the emergence of the illness narrative. The increase of chronic disease, the transformation of medicine into...