Bøger udgivet af University of Pittsburgh Press

The rise of industrial capitalism in the nineteenth century forged a new ecological order in North American and Western European states, radically transforming the environment through science and technology in the name of human progress.

Orsini demonstrates how mobile sources of hazard posed special challenges for both expert assessments and public understandings of risk.

Street Matters links urban policy and planning with street protests in Brazil. They embed the history of civil society within the history of urban planning and its institutionalization to show how urban and regional planning played a key role in the management of the social conflicts surrounding land ownership.

In the late eighteenth century, enlightened politicians and upper-class women in Spain debated the right of women to join one of the country's most prominent scientific institutions: the Madrid Economic Society of Friends of the Country.

This book examines the Slovak Question in former Czechoslovakia from an international perspective.

A comprehensive, novel reassessment of the life and work of one of America's most influential self-taught artists, John Kane.

Campbell's fascinating study of the Brazilian Northeast is her emphasis on the way the world beyond the nation served as a site for regional identity formation and as a resource for regionalists eager to demonstrate the centrality of the Northeast to the Brazilian nation and its vibrant culture.

Charts the history of public libraries and librarianship in Pennsylvania.

Explores science and religion at a time when new ways of thinking threatened to divide England.

An investigation into how health practitioners working between official and unofficial medicines shaped Latin America.

With fine detail and observation, these poems work in some way like poetic weirs: readers of Kane's work will see the artic and subarctic, but also, more broadly, America, and the exigencies of motherhood, indigenous experience, feminism, and climate crises alongside the near-necropastoral of misogyny, violence, and systemic failures.

New poems from the author of Imperial, and Blood Pages.

The essays in Against Racism examine actors in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico that move beyond recognition politics to address structural inequalities and material conflicts and build common ground with other marginalized groups.

Prelude explores the gay female experience through a poetic reconstruction of the girlhood and adolescence of Saint Catherine of Siena

"Mothers, Families, or Children? is the first comparative-historical study of family policies in Poland, Hungary, and Romania from 1945 until the eve of the global pandemic in 2020. The book highlights the emergence, consolidation, and perseverance of three types of family policies based on "mother-orientation" in Poland, "family orientation" in Hungary, and "child-orientation" in Romania. It uses a new theoretical framework to identify core and contingent clusters of benefits and services in each country and trace their development across time and under different political regimes, before and after 1989. It also examines and compares policy continuity and change with special attention to institutions, ideas, and actors involved in decision making and reform. As family policies continue to evolve in the era of European Union membership and new governmental and societal actors emerge, this study reveals mechanisms that help preserve core family policy clusters while allowing reform in contingent ones in each country"--

A collection of poems examining life from a quasi-science-fiction perspective.

Explores how to bring about social change within an oppressive political system without resorting to violence.

Explores how ingenuity shaped experience, discourse and conceptualisation of materials and their manipulation in early modern Europe.

The Thicket opens into intimate encounters with the more-than-human world - rivers, birds, stones - and with a "you" that is not a person, necessarily, but also not not a person: maybe God, maybe an aspect of the self, maybe neither or both.

The public has voiced concern over the adverse effects of vaccines from the moment Dr. Edward Jenner introduced the first smallpox vaccine in 1796. Goldenberg ultimately reframes vaccine hesitancy as a crisis of public trust rather than a war on science, arguing that having good scientific support of vaccine efficacy and safety is not enough.

This classic work, with a new foreword by journalist Tom Waseleski, and new cover art by Pittsburgh painter Ron Donoughe, provides an extensive look at early twentieth century Pittsburgh with vivid descriptions of urban social conditions in the neighborhoods around the mills in Homestead, Pennsylvania.

The San Jose de Apartado Peace Community of small-scale farmers has not waited for a top-down peace treaty. Amid the widespread violence of today's global crisis, Community of Peace illustrates San Jose's rupture from the logics of colonialism and capitalism through the construction of political solidarity and communal peace.

Hello I Must Be Going, David Hernandez's fifth collection of poems, offers a unique take on poetry informed by works of art. With narrative and lyrical brushstrokes, Hernandez crafts vibrant landscapes that depict the chaos of the modern world and the beauty entwined within it.

This collection of poems reflects multiple voices around the theme of connections.

Beyond the Lab and the Field analyzes infrastructures as intense sites of knowledge production in the Americas, Europe, and Asia since the late nineteenth century.

By 1920, Buenos Aires was the largest and most cosmopolitan city of Latin America due to mass immigration from Europe.

A New History of Local Philanthropy that Offers New Insights on Its Interplay with Regional Partners, Aspirations, and Progress

Explores parallels between the development of racial and architectural thinking, tracing the racial charge of the architectural writings of five modern architectural theorists.

Explores of role of fitness culture within modern Brazilian society, considering it within the history of western imperialism and its existing discourses that continue to define Brazilian nationhood and power structures.

An innovative examination of domestic spaces in Latin American cinema.