Ubc Press: 266 books
Lost Kids
Vulnerable Children and Youth in Twentieth-Century Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Children and youth occupy important social and political roles, even as they sleep in cribs or hang out on street corners. Conceptualized as either harbingers or saboteurs of a bright, secure tomorrow, they have motivated many adult-driven schemes to effect a positive future. But have all children...
Teaching Each Other
Nehinuw Concepts and Indigenous Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
In recent decades, educators have been seeking ways to improve outcomes for Indigenous students. Yet most Indigenous education still takes place within a theoretical framework based in Eurocentric thought.
In Teaching Each Other, Linda Goulet and Keith Goulet provide an alternative framework...
Far Off Metal River
Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In 1771, Samuel Hearne, an employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company, set off with a group of Dene guides in search of a “Far Off Metal River” in the Central Arctic, rumored to be rich in copper. Twenty-four years later, Hearne’s account of his journey was published, along with a graphic description...
Lived Fictions
Unity and Exclusion in Canadian Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
The idea of political unity contains its own opposite, because a political community can never guarantee the equal status of all its members. The price of belonging is an entrenched social stratification within the political unit itself. This book explores how the desire for political unity generates...
Building a Collaborative Advantage
Network Governance and Homelessness Policy-Making in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Homelessness is not a historical accident. We know that it is the disastrous outcome of policy decisions made over time and at several levels of government. Yet conventional theories in political science and public administration fail to explain why some approaches have worked while others have failed.
Drawing...
Game Changer
The Impact of 9/11 on North American Security
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Game Changer will be of interest to students and scholars of North American history, international relations, political science, and terrorism studies and to general readers with an interest in security, politics, or the legacy of 9/11.
Made Modern
Science and Technology in Canadian History
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living in modern times.
Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History explores the complex interconnections between science, technology,...
Maritime Command Pacific
The Royal Canadian Navy’s West Coast Fleet in the Early Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
As the first comprehensive account of Canada’s maritime defense of the West Coast during the early Cold War, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Royal Canadian Navy, maritime air forces, and Canadian defence policy during this period. It will also prove invaluable to...
The Man Who Invented Gender
Engaging the Ideas of John Money
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This book is essential reading for scholars of gender studies in both cultural studies and medicine, and for anyone seeking a fuller interpretation of the leading sexologist’s theories and accomplishments.
Beyond the Amur
Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850–1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that developed in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and Imperial Russia as the two empires competed for natural resources. Although official imperial histories depict the Amur as a distant battleground between rival...
Suburb, Slum, Urban Village
Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875-2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2010
Suburb, Slum, Urban Village examines the relationship between image and reality for one city neighbourhood – Toronto’s Parkdale. Carolyn Whitzman tracks Parkdale’s story across three eras: its early decades as a politically independent suburb of the industrial city; its half-century of ostensible...
by R.E. Lowe-Walker
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Achieving socio-political cohesion in a community with significant ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity is a difficult challenge in contemporary liberal democracies. In the quest for neutrality, public policies and institutions shaped by the needs of the majority can inadvertently marginalize...
What Is Water?
The History of a Modern Abstraction
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
This history of an idea whose consequences have helped produce a global crisis will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental science, water managers, and concerned citizens who want to explore fresh approaches to fundamental environmental problems.
The Iconic North
Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life in Postwar Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
Resilient ideological assumptions, shifting economic priorities, and government policy in the postwar era influenced how northern culture was represented in popular Canadian imagery. In an enlightening exposure of Canada’s cultural landscape, The Iconic North lays bare the relationship between settler...