Ubc Press: 266 books
by Douglas E. Delaney, Robert C. Engen, Meghan Fitzpatrick
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Military education was the lifeblood of the armies, navies, and air forces of the British Empire and an essential ingredient for success in both war and peace. Military Education and the British Empire is the first major scholarly work to address the role of military education in maintaining the empire...
To Be Equals in Our Own Country
Women and the Vote in Quebec
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
“When the history of suffrage is written, the role played by our politicians will cut a sad figure beside that of the women they insulted.” Speaking in 1935, feminist Idola Saint-Jean captured the bitter nature of Quebec women’s fight for enfranchisement, as religious authorities weighed what...
Bringing the Passions Back In
The Emotions in Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2008
The rationalist ideal has been met with cynicism in progressive circles for undermining the role of emotion and passion in the public realm. By exploring the social and political implications of the emotions in the history of ideas, contributors examine new paradigms for liberalism and offer new appreciations...
Condo Conquest
Urban Governance, Law, and Condoization in New York City and Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
When condominiums first emerged in North American cities in the 1960s, they were a new kind of housing governed by boards of resident owners volunteering in a community. Condo Conquest shows how the condo and its inner governance have since become something else entirely, taken over – or conquered...
Thumbing a Ride
Hitchhikers, Hostels, and Counterculture in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
In the 1920s, as a national network of roads and youth hostels spread across Canada, so did the practice of hitchhiking. By the 1960s, the Trans-Canada Highway had become the main thoroughfare for thousands of young baby boomers seeking adventure.
Thumbing a Ride examines the rise and fall...
Science of the Seance
Transnational Networks and Gendered Bodies in the Study of Psychic Phenomena, 1918-40
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
In the 1920s and ’30s, people gathered in darkened rooms to explore the paranormal through seances. They were motivated by grief, spiritual devotion, or a desire to be entertained. Beth A. Robertson resurrects the story of a small transnational group and their quest for objective knowledge of the...
Unsettled Balance
Ethics, Security, and Canada’s International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
This book will be required reading for students and scholars of Canadian foreign policy, international relations, security studies, and political geography.
Beyond Accommodation
Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Problems – of integration, failed political participation, and requests for various kinds of accommodation – seem to dominate the research on minority Muslims in Western nations. Beyond Accommodation offers a different perspective, showing how Muslim Canadians successfully navigate and negotiate...
The New NDP
Moderation, Modernization, and Political Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
The New NDP is the definitive account of the evolution of the New Democratic Party’s political marketing strategy in the early twenty-first century. In 2011, the federal NDP achieved its greatest electoral success – becoming the official opposition. The moderation of its ideology and modernization...
Exhibiting Nation
Multicultural Nationalism (and Its Limits) in Canada’s Museums
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of museum studies, anthropology, and cultural studies and will also appeal to those with an interest in social and political theory.
Leviathan Undone?
Towards a Political Economy of Scale
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Caught in the trap of the nation-state and frozen in postwar bloc logic, critical political economy has been found wanting when it comes to problematizing space and scale. Globalization and the rise of world cities and regions have shaken the discipline's foundations and fostered new interest in the...
Saving the Nation through Culture
The Folklore Movement in Republican China
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement coalesced at National Peking University between 1918 and 1926. A group of academics, inspired by Western thought, turned to the study of folklore – popular songs, beliefs, and customs – to rally people around the flag. Saving the Nation through Culture opens...
Call of the World
A Political Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Call of the World takes us on an unprecedented behind-the-scenes tour of defining moments in recent global history. Bill Graham – Canada’s minister of foreign affairs and then its minister of defence in the tumultuous years following 9/11 – is an insightful and wryly humorous guide, steering...
Engagement Organizing
The Old Art and New Science of Winning Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
At any given moment, there are hundreds of campaigns under way that seek to persuade citizens or decision makers to think, act, or vote in a certain way. But what separates campaigns that win from those that don’t?
This book shows how to combine old-school people power with new digital tools...