Books Archive - University of Pittsburgh Press

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

Kaufmann’s

The Family That Built Pittsburgh’s Famed Department Store

By Marylynne Pitz, Laura Malt Schneiderman

Traces One Family’s Outsized Influence on Its Community and a Century of National Retail Trends in the Department Store Industry

Ties That Bind

By Charles Jacobson

A historical guidebook for topics ranging from the networked city to the global internet that illuminates the political, economic, and technological forces shaping the infrastructure of modern life.

Making an Urban Public

Popular Claims to the City in Mexico, 1879-1932

By Christina Jiménez

A Social History of Urbanization and Popular Politics in the Turn of the Century Mexico