Ubc Press imprint: 250 books
At the Far Reaches of Empire
The Life of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Capitán de Navío Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was the most important Spanish naval officer on the Northwest Coast in the eighteenth century. Serving from 1774 to 1794, he participated in the search for the Northwest Passage and, with George Vancouver, endeavoured to forge a diplomatic resolution...
Unwanted Warriors
Rejected Volunteers of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This book will fascinate students, scholars, and aficionados of Canadian history, particularly those with an interest in the Great War or medical history.
The Equity Myth
Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
The university is often regarded as a bastion of liberal democracy where equity and diversity are vigorously promoted. In reality, the university still excludes many people and is a site of racialization that is subtle, complex, and sophisticated. This book, the first comprehensive, data-based study...
No Home in a Homeland
Indigenous Peoples and Homelessness in the Canadian North
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The Dene, a traditionally nomadic people, have no word for homelessness, a rare condition in the Canadian North prior to the 1990s. Julia Christensen documents the rise of Indigenous homelessness and proposes solutions by interweaving analysis of the region’s unique history with personal narratives...
Disabling Barriers
Social Movements, Disability History, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists demonstrate that disabled people can change their social status by transforming the political and legal discourse...
by Michiko Midge Ayukawa
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada, 1891-1941 is a fascinating investigation of Japanese migration to Canada prior to the Second World War. It makes Japanese-language scholarship on the subject available for the first time, and also draws on interviews, diaries, community histories, biographies, and the...
New Treaty, New Tradition
Reconciling New Zealand and Maori Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Legal traditions respond to social and economic environments. Māori author and legal scholar Carwyn Jones provides a timely examination of how the resolution of land claims in New Zealand has affected Māori law and the challenges faced by Indigenous peoples as they attempt to exercise self-determination...
The Deindustrialized World
Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Since the 1970s, the closure of mines, mills, and factories has marked a rupture in working-class lives. The Deindustrialized World interrogates the process of industrial ruination, from the first impact of layoffs in metropolitan cities, suburban areas, and single-industry towns to the shock waves...
The Politics of War
Canada’s Afghanistan Mission, 2001–14
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
When the Canadian government committed forces to join the American-led military mission in Afghanistan following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, little did Canadians – or the government itself – foresee that this decision would involve Canada in a war-riven country for over a decade....
When Wheat Was King
The Rise and Fall of the Canada-UK Grain Trade
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
Food systems students and scholars, farmers, policy makers, agricultural historians, researchers of agricultural politics and international trade, and anyone with a stake in Canadian wheat will find much of interest in When Wheat Was King.
We Interrupt This Program
Indigenous Media Tactics in Canadian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
We Interrupt This Program tells the story of how Indigenous people are using media tactics in the realms of art, film, television, and journalism to rewrite Canada’s national narratives from Indigenous perspectives. Miranda Brady and John Kelly showcase the diversity of these interventions by offering...
Conflicting Visions
Canada and India in the Cold War World, 1946-76
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In 1974, India shocked the world by detonating a nuclear device. In the diplomatic controversy that ensued, the Canadian government expressed outrage that India had extracted plutonium from a Canadian reactor donated only for peaceful purposes. In the aftermath, relations between the two nations cooled...
by Colin McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Creating Canada’s Peacekeeping Past illuminates how Canada’s participation in the United Nations’ peacekeeping efforts from 1956 to 1997 was used as a symbol of national identity – in Quebec and the rest of the country. Delving into four decades’ worth of documentaries, newspaper coverage,...
Cautious Beginnings
Canadian Foreign Intelligence, 1939-51
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
When the Second World War began, Canada had no foreign intelligence capacity. Its political leaders had concluded that a clandestine service was not necessary to meet the nation's intelligence requirements. Yet Kurt F. Jensen argues that the country was a more active intelligence partner in the wartime...