Books published by University of British Columbia Press

Case studies from North America, Latin America, and Southeast Asia explore the challenges and benefits of building transnational ties among feminists and women's groups.

A nuanced account of Ottawa's failed attempt to replace Mi'kmaw political culture with Euro-Canadian political values and structures.

The first systematic analysis of general theories about Canada's post-Charter constitutional evolution.

Leading young scholars of Canadian political behaviour explore long- and short-term influences on voting behaviour and reveal the nuances and challenges of understanding election results in Canada and other modern democracies.

Leading young scholars of Canadian political behaviour explore long- and short-term influences on voting behaviour and reveal the nuances and challenges of understanding election results in Canada and other modern democracies.

This book explores how Japanese Canadians living in an isolated mountainous valley in the province of British Columbia worked together to transform the village where they lived for over fifty years from a site of political violence into a space for remembrance.

This book examines the under-representation of Quebec women in Quebec's National Assembly and in Canada's House of Commons and Senate from 1791 to the present.

Militia Myths traces the cultural history of the citizen soldier from 1896 to 1921, an ideal that lay at the foundation of how Canadians experienced and remember the First World War.

This volume and its predecessor condense the vast amount of literature on the nonpasserines of Ontario into a compact reference manual that will be essential to biologists, environmental planners, and serious birders.

Offers a multifaceted perspective on how global changes in the organization of power have transformed the ability of individuals and communities to create their own meanings.

Offers a multifaceted perspective on how global changes in the organization of power have transformed the ability of individuals and communities to create their own meanings.

Explores the decade-long challenge to reconstruct Kobe after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995.

The first comprehensive examination of execution as a social institution in Canada.

By examining one of the largest natural resource management failures of the twentieth century - the collapse of the Newfoundland cod fishery - this book seeks to understand the history of, and possible alternatives to, managerial responses to environmental issues.

The first history of educational policy, practice, and decision making in the Eastern Arctic, now Nunavut.

This unique exploration of commemoration and memory traces Jacque Cartier's evolving image over five centuries to show how changing notions of the past have shaped identity formation and nationalism in English- and French-speaking Canada.

This intimate study of the lives of middle-class lesbians who came of age before the gay rights movement unveils a previously unknown world of private relationships, discreet social networks, and love.

Eating Bitterness reveals what the Great Leap Forward meant for ordinary men and women in Maoist China.

Eating Bitterness reveals what the Great Leap Forward meant for ordinary men and women in Maoist China.

This history examines shifting constructions of homosexuality over time through a comparative analysis of gay persecution in France and Quebec.

This ground-breaking work explores how the unsettling of legitimacy has affected the relationships between authority, power, and political community in local, regional, national, and global settings.

This ground-breaking work explores how the unsettling of legitimacy has affected the relationships between authority, power, and political community in local, regional, national, and global settings.

Nuclear Waste Management in Canada encourages critical thought and discussion about energy generation and waste management by exploring not only the technical but also the social and ethical aspects of the problem.

Nuclear Waste Management in Canada encourages critical thought and discussion about energy generation and waste management by exploring not only the technical but also the social and ethical aspects of the problem.

Distinguished historians and social scientists consider the under-representation, demonization, and inadequate care of vulnerable children in twentieth-century Canada and the United States.

The New Silk Road Diplomacy traces how China, faced with internal and external challenges to its authority following the collapse of the Soviet Union, constructed a gradualist approach to Central Asia that prioritized multilateral diplomacy.