University Of Pittsburgh Press: 402 books
by Juliana Adelman
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The nineteenth century was an important period for both the proliferation of "popular" science and for the demarcation of a group of professionals that we now term scientists. Of course for Ireland, largely in contrast to the rest of Britain, the prominence of Catholicism posed various philosophical...
by Anthony Varallo
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2008
WINNER OF THE 2008 DRUE HEINZ LITERATURE PRIZE
Selected by Scott Turow
Feeling distanced from her friends and family, middle-aged divorcée Caitlin Drury is encouraged by her daughter to express her feelings in a diary, but she is hesitant: “I feel lonely she wrote, then crossed it out....
by Itohan Osayimwese
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Over the course of the nineteenth century, drastic social and political changes, technological innovations, and exposure to non-Western cultures affected Germany’s built environment in profound ways. The economic challenges of Germany’s colonial project forced architects designing for the colonies...
Re-Collecting Black Hawk
Landscape, Memory, and Power in the American Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything from fitness clubs to used car dealerships. Makataimeshekiakiak, the Sauk Indian war leader whose name loosely translates to “Black Hawk,” surrendered in 1832 after...
Speaking Soviet with an Accent
Culture and Power in Kyrgyzstan
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Speaking Soviet with an Accent presents the first English-language study of Soviet culture clubs in Kyrgyzstan. These clubs profoundly influenced the future of Kyrgyz cultural identity and fostered the work of many artists, such as famed novelist Chingiz Aitmatov.
Based on extensive oral history...
Exploratory Experiments
Ampère, Faraday, and the Origins of Electrodynamics
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2016
The nineteenth century was a formative period for electromagnetism and electrodynamics. Hans Christian Ørsted’s groundbreaking discovery of the interaction between electricity and magnetism in 1820 inspired a wave of research, led to the science of electrodynamics, and resulted in the development...
Networking Arguments
Rhetoric, Transnational Feminism, and Public Policy Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2012
Networking Arguments presents an original study on the use and misuse of global institutional rhetoric and the effects of these practices on women, particularly in developing countries. Using a feminist lens, Rebecca Dingo views the complex networks that rhetoric flows through, globally and nationally,...
The Science of History in Victorian Britain
Making the Past Speak
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
New attitudes towards history in nineteenth-century Britain saw a rejection of romantic, literary techniques in favour of a professionalized, scientific methodology. The development of history as a scientific discipline was undertaken by several key historians of the Victorian period, influenced by...
Concrete and Countryside
The Urban and the Rural in 1950s Puerto Rican Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2018
From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Puerto Rico was swept by a wave of modernization, transforming the island from a predominantly rural society to an unquestionably urban one. A curious paradox ensued, however. While the island underwent rapid urbanization, and the rhetoric of economic development...
by Afaa Michael Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This is the second volume of a trilogy (the first was The Plum Flower Dance) in which Weaver analyzes his life, striving to become the ideal poet. In The Government of Nature, Afaa Michael Weaver explores the trauma of his childhood—including sexual abuse—using a "cartography and thematic...
Liberty and the Pursuit of Knowledge
Charles Renouvier's Political Philosophy of Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
French philosopher Charles Renouvier played an influential role in reviving philosophy in France after it was proscribed during the Second Empire. Drawn to the ideals of the French Revolution, Renouvier came to recognize that the free will and civil liberties he supported were essential to the pursuit...
by Beth Bachmann
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
A Plea and an Awakening to Peace as a Process and a Transient State
CEASE begins with the words, “to keep the peace/we need a wall/to fall to our knees before….” Framed by the long poem, “wall,” Beth Bachmann’s new collection of poetry wildly upturns the boundaries between bodies...
by Wanda Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
The burnings from which Coleman culls her work casts a glow and unique warmth that invites the reader to sit by her metaphorical hearth, to laugh and enjoy their “conversation.” The contemplative and philosophical have entered her voice as she continues to explore the conflicts and confusions...
by Jody Shipka
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
To many academics, composition still represents typewritten texts on 8.5” x 11” pages that follow rote argumentative guidelines. In Toward a Composition Made Whole, Jody Shipka views composition as an act of communication that can be expressed through any number of media and as a path to meaning-making....