University of Pittsburgh Press

The University of Pittsburgh Press is a publisher with distinguished lists in a wide range of scholarly and cultural fields. They publish books for general readers, scholars, and students. The Press focuses on selected academic areas: Latin American studies, Russian and East European studies, Central Asian studies, composition and literacy studies, environmental studies, urban studies, the history of architecture and the built environment, and the history and philosophy of science, technology, and medicine. Their books about Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania include history, art, architecture, photography, biography, fiction, and guidebooks.

Their renowned Pitt Poetry Series represents many of the finest poets active today, as reflected in the many prestigious awards their work has garnered over the past four decades. In addition, the Press is home to the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, and, in rotation with other university presses, the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. They sponsor the prestigious Drue Heinz Literature Prize, which recognises the finest collective works of short fiction available in an international competition.

The Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 14 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 720
ISBN: 9780822948186
Pub Date: 17 Jun 2025
Series: The Correspondence of John Tyndall
Description:
The 499 letters in the fourteenth volume of The Correspondence of John Tyndall cover a number of particularly intense and acrimonious disputes. More notably, this volume spans the period of the composition, delivery, and furious reaction to Tyndall’s famous—or, more accurately, infamous—Belfast Address. This prestigious lecture, which he delivered as the newly inaugurated president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, has long been heralded as one of the most momentous events of the nineteenth century.

Mal Goode Reporting

The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer
Format: Paperback
Pages: 484
ISBN: 9780822967453
Pub Date: 06 May 2025
Illustrations: 33 b&w
Description:
Mal Goode (1908–1995) became network news’s first African American correspondent when ABC News hired him in 1962. Raised in Homestead and Pittsburgh, he worked in the mills, graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, and went on to become a journalist for the Pittsburgh Courier and later for local radio. With his basso profundo voice resonating on the airwaves, Goode challenged the police, politicians, and segregation, while providing Black listeners a voice that captured their experience.

World Observation

Empire, Architecture, and the Global Archive of Itō Chūta
Format: Hardback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9780822948445
Pub Date: 06 May 2025
Illustrations: 68 b/w and 47 color illustrations
Comparative Economic and Social Evaluation of Two Economic Models Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9780822948476
Pub Date: 29 Apr 2025
Description:
A new volume in the award winning University of Pittsburgh Press Latin American Studies Series

Cosmic Fragments

Dislocation and Discontent in the Global Space Age
Format: Hardback
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9780822948438
Pub Date: 29 Apr 2025
Description:
A new volume in the University of Pittsburgh Press Intersections Series

Ecologies of Disease Control

Spaces of Health Security in Historical Perspective
Format: Hardback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9780822948483
Pub Date: 29 Apr 2025
Description:
A new volume in the University of Pittsburgh Press Histories and Ecologies of Health series

Weather, Science, and the Environment in Colonial Malaya

Format: Hardback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780822948421
Pub Date: 29 Apr 2025
Description:
A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Intersections Series
William Bartram's Visual Wonders Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780822948261
Pub Date: 24 Apr 2025
Description:
The botanical drawings of the American naturalist William Bartram.
Cuban Studies 54 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780822948353
Pub Date: 22 Apr 2025
Series: Cuban Studies
Illustrations: 30 b&w
Description:
Cuban Studies is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in English and Spanish and a large book review section. In publication since 1970, and under Alejandro de la Fuente’s editorial leadership since 2013, this interdisciplinary journal covers all aspects of Cuban history, politics, culture, diaspora, and more.

Model Schools in the Model City

Race, Planning, and Education in the Nations Capital
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780822948469
Pub Date: 22 Apr 2025
Description:
A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press award winning Culture Politics & the Built Environment series

Profitable Offices

Corruption, Anticorruption, and the Formation of Venezuela’s Neopatrimonial State, 1908-1948
Format: Hardback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780822948506
Pub Date: 22 Apr 2025
Illustrations: 5 b&w

Architecture of Peace

The Right to an Urban History of Gaza, 1948-1993
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780822948452
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Description:
A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Culture Politics & the Built Environment series

Spaces of Immigration

Railways and the American Cultural Landscape
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780822948490
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Description:
A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Culture Politics & the Built Environment series
Swarms, Viral Writing, and the Local Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 424
ISBN: 9780822947950
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Description:
A new addition to the University of Pittsburgh Press Composition, Literacy, and Culture series.

The Occupant

Poems
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780822967392
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Description:
The Occupant isa collection of persona and prose poems that explores the “inner lives” of common household objects, along with that of “The Occupant” of the house, their human keeper. Taken together, their shifting perspectives engage questions of time, mortality, and the nature of consciousness itself, reminding readers of the beauty and strangeness that lurk under the surface of ordinary thought—the “other world” that, as Paul Éluard noted, “resides in this one.”

Negotiating Radiation Protection in the Nuclear Age

Histories of Exposure and Expertise
Format: Hardback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780822948582
Pub Date: 11 Apr 2025
Illustrations: 25 b&w illustrations