Ubc Press imprint: 250 books

The Reluctant Land

Society, Space, and Environment in Canada before Confederation

by Cole Harris
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009

Winner, 2008 K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing, UBC Press The Reluctant Land describes the evolving pattern of settlement and the changing relationships of people and land in Canada from the end of the fifteenth century to the Confederation years of the late 1860s...

Framed

Media and the Coverage of Race in Canadian Politics

by Erin Tolley
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015

This book should sit on every journalist’s desk next to the Canadian Press Stylebook. It will be of tremendous interest to scholars and students of political science, immigration and citizenship, multiculturalism, communications, journalism, media studies, women and gender studies, as well as politicians and policy analysts.

Political Communication in Canada

Meet the Press and Tweet the Rest

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Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2014

Changes in technology and media consumption are transforming the way people communicate about politics. Are they also changing the way politicians communicate to the public? Political Communication in Canada examines the way political parties, politicians, interest groups, the media, and citizens...

Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire

Colonial Relations, Humanitarian Discourses, and the Imperial Press

by Kenton Storey
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016

Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, fear of Indigenous uprisings spread across the British Empire and nibbled at the edges of settler societies. Publicly admitting to this anxiety, however, would have gone counter to Victorian notions of racial superiority. In Settler Anxiety at the Outposts...

Unbuilt Environments

Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia

by Jonathan Peyton
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017

This book will be of interest to scholars of history, geography, environmental studies, and Aboriginal studies, as well as those working in anthropology, resource and development studies, and political ecology.

Inventing Stanley Park

An Environmental History

by Sean Kheraj
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

In early December 2006, a powerful windstorm ripped through Vancouver's Stanley Park. The storm transformed the city's most treasured landmark into a tangle of splintered trees and shattered a decades-old vision of the park as timeless virgin wilderness. In Inventing Stanley Park, Sean Kheraj traces...

Time Travel

Tourism and the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada

by Alan Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016

In the 1960s, Canadians could step through time to eighteenth-century trading posts or nineteenth-century pioneer towns. These living history museums promised authentic reconstructions of the past but, as Time Travel shows, they revealed more about mid-twentieth-century interests and perceptions of...

We Still Demand!

Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles

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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017

Of particular interest to scholars and students of social history, political science, social movements, gender and transgender studies, women’s studies, and queer studies, this book will also appeal to activists and political analysts interested in critical sexual and gender theory and social change.

Beyond Afghanistan

An International Security Agenda for Canada

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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016

For over a decade, Canada’s participation in the war in Afghanistan dominated media headlines, government discussions, academic studies, and the public international security debate, often to the exclusion of issues that have traditionally shaped Canadian approaches to security and defence policy....

Strangers in Blood

Fur Trade Company Families in Indian Country

by Jennifer S. H. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1980

The North American fur trade of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was a vividly complex and changing social world. Strangers in Blood fills a major gap in fur trade literature by systematically examining the traders as a group -- their backgrounds, social patterns, domestic lives and families, and the problems of their offspring.

North to Bondage

Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes

by Harvey Amani Whitfield
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016

Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring escaped slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, many Loyalist families brought slaves with them when they settled in the Maritime colonies of British North America. Once there,...

"Don't Be So Gay!"

Queers, Bullying, and Making Schools Safe

by Donn Short
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

Recent cases of teen suicide linked with homophobic bullying have thrust the issue of school safety into the national spotlight. In "Don't Be So Gay!" Queers, Bullying, and Making Schools Safe, Donn Short considers the effectiveness of safe-school legislation. Drawing on interviews with queer youth and...
by Robert J. Muckle
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014

Since it was first published in 1998, The First Nations of British Columbia has been an essential introduction to the province’s first peoples. Written within an anthropological framework, it familiarizes readers with the history and cultures of First Nations in the province and provides a fundamental...

Fragile Settlements

Aboriginal Peoples, Law, and Resistance in South-West Australia and Prairie Canada

by Amanda Nettelbeck, Russell Smandych, Louis A. Knafla
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of trans-colonial history, Indigenous Studies, and the socio-legal history of the British Empire.
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