University of Pittsburgh Press

  • Pioneer Life In Western Pennsylvania

    A fascinating look at life during pioneer times in western Pennsylvania. Describes the hardship, danger and drudgery of day-to-day life on the frontier. Topics include cabin raising, crop harvests, tanning,…

    $21.95
  • Pitiful Plaintiffs

    Focusing on a class action lawsuit against the Illinois child welfare system (B. H. v. Johnson), Pitiful Plaintiffs examines the role of the federal courts in the child welfare policymaking…

    $35.95
  • Pittsburgh

    Originally published in 1937, [t]his standard history of Pittsburgh tells the city’s story from its violent days as an eighteenth-century outpost of empire to the onset of its great age of…

    $21.95
  • Pittsburgh Collects

    Pittsburgh Collects accompanies an exhibition at the Frick Art and Historical Center that ran from October 23, 2004, to January 2, 2005. Highlighting the Italian, French, Dutch, Flemish, and English…

    $29.95
  • Pittsburgh Sports

    Summer afternoons at Forbes Field, playoff Sundays with the Steelers, winter nights at the Igloo cheering for Mario and the Penguins: Pittsburgh Sports captures all that and more. With stories…

    $23.95
  • Pittsburgh Surveyed

    From 1909-1914 the Pittsburgh Survey brought together statisticans, social workers, engineers, lawyers, physicians, economists, and city planners to study the effects of industrialization on the city of Pittsburgh.  Pittsburgh Surveyed…

    $37.95
  • Policy Analysis by Design

    Policy Analysis by Design examines the approaches to public policy taken by those who try to teach it, write about it, and influence it through major analysis.  Bobrow and Dryzek…

    $35.95
  • Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Peru

    In the mid-nineteenth century, Peru underwent a profound transformation. As the world economy became increasingly integrated, a new trade-based ruling class emerged. Elections led to political mobilization, and those in…

    $45.00
  • Politics In The Andes

    The Andean region is perhaps the most violent and politically unstable in the Western Hemisphere. Politics in the Andes is the first comprehensive volume to assess the persistent political challenges…

    $37.95
  • Politics Of Remediation

    While some students need more writing instruction than others, The Politics of Remediation reveals how that need also pertains to the institutions themselves. Mary Soliday argues that universities may need…

    $44.00
  • Postmodern Presidency

    As America’s first truly postmodern president, Bill Clinton experienced both great highs and stunning lows in office that will shape the future course of American politics. Clinton will forever be…

    $37.95
  • Practicing Writing

    Practicing Writing examines a pivotal era in the history of the most ubiquitous-and possibly most problematic-course in North American colleges and universities: the requireAd first-year writing course generally known as…

    $37.95