Ubc Press imprint: 250 books
Indigenous in the City
Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural locations as emblematic of authentic or "real" Indigeneity. While such a perspective may support Indigenous struggles for territory and recognition, it fails to account for...
Unions in Court
Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Scholars with an interest in contemporary labour relations, labour law, and the discourse of rights, as well as labour movements, will find this book useful and interesting.
Landing Native Fisheries
Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Landing Native Fisheries reveals the contradictions and consequences of an Indian land policy premised on access to fish, on one hand, and a program of fisheries management intended to open the resource to newcomers, on the other. Beginning with the first treaties signed on Vancouver Island between...
Breaking News?
Politics, Journalism, and Infotainment on Quebec Television
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In the thousand-channel universe, politicians must find innovative ways to reach citizens via television. The rise of programming that blends information with entertainment – infotainment – on Canadian television, especially in Quebec, has provided an opportunity for today’s politicians to use...
Making a Scene
Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
In the 1960s, a youthful and ambitious lesbian movement began taking shape in Canada. After decades of being pathologized, disparaged, or erased from public view, lesbians were ready to make a scene – both by calling attention to themselves and by creating places to come together and forge their...
Oral History at the Crossroads
Sharing Life Stories of Survival and Displacement
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Over the span of seven years, hundreds of people displaced by mass violence told their stories to the Montreal Life Stories project. From the outset, the project’s organizers sought to develop an alternative model to traditional oral history practice, one where community members “shared authority”...
Feminist History in Canada
New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
In the late 1970s, feminist historians urged us to "rethink" Canada by placing women's perspectives and experiences at the centre of historical analysis. Forty years later, feminism continues to inform history writing in Canada and has inspired historians to look beyond the nation and adopt...
by Paul Litt
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
General interested readers: Baby boomers. This engaging history of a uniquely Canadian phenomenon will fascinate anyone interested in Canadian culture, identity, media, politics, and the making of modern Canada.
Scholars and students: This book tells us as much about the 1960s, Canadian nationalism,...
The Nurture of Nature
Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Thousands of children attended summer camps in twentieth-century Ontario. Did parents simply want a break, or were broader developments at play? The Nurture of Nature explores how competing cultural tendencies – antimodern nostalgia and modern sensibilities about the landscape, child rearing, and...
Sister Soldiers of the Great War
The Nurses of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
“I am on night duty ... on what is supposed to be the ‘hopeless ward’ so you can imagine, or try to, just what I am doing. I know you cannot really have the faintest idea ...”
In Sister Soldiers of the Great War, award-winning author Cynthia Toman recovers the long-lost history of Canada’s...
The Canadian Rangers
A Living History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The Canadian Rangers stand sentinel in the farthest reaches of our country. For more than six decades, this dedicated group of citizen-soldiers has quietly served as Canada's eyes, ears, and voice in isolated coastal and northern communities. Drawing on official records, interviews, and participation...
Unsettling the Settler Within
Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
In 2008, Canada established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that created Canada's notorious residential school system. Unsettling the Settler Within argues that non-Aboriginal Canadians must undergo their own process of decolonization...
Awfully Devoted Women
Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The lives of many lesbians prior to 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have turned the spotlight on upper-middle-class “romantic friends” and on working-class butch and femme women, but the lives of the lower-middle-class majority remain in the shadows. Awfully Devoted Women offers a portrait...
White Settler Reserve
New Iceland and the Colonization of the Canadian West
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In 1875, Icelandic immigrants established a colony on the southwest shore of Lake Winnipeg. The timing and location of New Iceland was not accidental. Across the Prairies, the Canadian government was creating land reserves for Europeans in the hope that the agricultural development of Indigenous lands...