Books published by University of Pittsburgh Press

Jacob Marcus's The Jews in The Medieval World (1938) has remained an indispensable resource for its comprehensive view of Jewish historical experience from late antiquity through the early modern period using primary source documents in English translation. This new work based on Marcus's book centres the focus squarely on Christian Europe.

How Medical Colleges Defined and Promoted a Reformed Pedagogy, Modern Science, and the New Physician

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.

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

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

A new editorial team led by Alejandro de la Fuente draws on scholarship from Cuba and around the world to make this multidisciplinary journal a must-read for those looking beyond the headlines for a deeper understanding of the rapid changes taking place on the island.

Illuminates the importance of the early history of cloning for the biosciences and their institutional, disciplinary, and intellectual contexts.