Books Archive - University of Pittsburgh Press

William Bartram’s Visual Wonders

The Drawings of an American Naturalist

By Elizabeth A. Athens

Positions Bartram’s Illustrations as Central to His Understanding of the Natural World

Pittsburgh Rising

From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920

By Edward K. Muller, Rob Ruck

Traces the Arc of Pittsburgh’s Rise from Frontier Outpost to Dynamic Industrial Region

Making the Frontier Man

Violence, White Manhood, and Authority in the Early Western Backcountry

By Matthew C. Ward

Contextualizes the Development of Early American Violence and Gun Culture

Distribution of Wealth and Income in the United States in 1798

By Lee Soltow

Based on census data, Soltow presents an exhautive survey of wealth distribution in the early United States, with a particular focus on the 1798 census for the First Direct Tax.

The Department of War, 1781–1795

By Harry M. Ward

A comprehensive study of the formative years of the Department of War, and the struggle to win public acceptance for maintaining a standing national army.