Books published by University of British Columbia Press

Fire and the Full Moon reassesses Canada's postwar foreign policy objectives and national image through the gulf between rhetoric and reality in Canada's response to decolonization in Indonesia and the Global South.

This feminist analysis of union renewal strategies suggests that equity is the way to reposition organized labour as a central institution in workers' lives.

This feminist analysis of union renewal strategies suggests that equity is the way to reposition organized labour as a central institution in workers' lives.

Contested Constitutionalism is a critique of Canadian democracy, judicial power, and the place of Quebec and Aboriginal peoples within the federation, all of which have been altered by the Charter's introduction in 1982.

Leading theorists debate the strengths and limitations of deliberative democracy in theory and practice.

Canada's Voice is the first comprehensive biography of a diplomat and scholar who shaped foreign policy during Canada's golden age as a middle power.

This meticulously researched study of the most famous of the Treaty No. 8 communities offers a unique perspective on nation building that challenges the nature of history writing in Canada itself.

This path-breaking book offers the first comprehensive, comparative examination of Asian religions in British Columbia. Its insightful and accessible community accounts offer intimate portraits of local religious groups, including Hindus and Sikhs from South Asia; Buddhist organizations from Southeast Asia; and Tibetan, Japanese, and Chinese religions from East and Central Asia.

This highly original, seminal study of Canadian theorists of technology and morality shows that Canadian thinkers were not only original and intellectually au courant but also engaging and insightful.

This sweeping exploration of history writing in British Columbia shows how historians helped to construct Canada's settler society.

Colonial Proximities traces the encounters between aboriginal peoples, mixed-race populations, Chinese migrants, and Europeans in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century British Columbia.

Bringing together leading theorists and scholars in contemporary spatial thinking and political economy, this volume presents an unprecedented collection of essays on scale, as well as case studies on the restructuring of our global society.

Bringing together leading theorists and scholars in contemporary spatial thinking and political economy, this volume presents an unprecedented collection of essays on scale, as well as case studies on the restructuring of our global society.

The Canadian War on Queers shows how the Canadian state used the ideology of national security to wage war on gays and lesbians.

Based on case studies of three self-government negotiations in the Northwest Territories, Finding Dahshaa is the first ethnographic study of the negotiation of self-government in Canada.

This book explores the lives of Indigenous peoples and settlers and compares the emergence of racial boundaries in two Pacific Rim cities - Victoria, British Columbia, and Melbourne, Australia.

By exposing the details of the Dundas Square area in Toronto, this book shows how city planners can be overwhelmed by the machinations of money and power, and why the planning field is ill-equipped to find creative solutions for post-industrial problems.

This book examines surveillance as both cause and effect of social and political problems.

The letters of Lance-Corporal George Timmins, who served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on the Western Front, offer a rare glimpse into the life and relationships, at home and abroad, of an ordinary Canadian soldier.

This path-breaking collection brings together environmental politics and democratic theory to reveal the deficits of citizenship and how democracy must be extended to achieve a socially just, ecologically sustainable society in Canada.

This collaborative study explores moments in the history of globalization and autonomy to provide insights into changes overtaking the contemporary world.

This path-breaking collection brings together environmental politics and democratic theory to reveal the deficits of citizenship and how democracy must be extended to achieve a socially just, ecologically sustainable society in Canada.

The first and only book about the Canadian pacifists who refused to fight in the Great War.

From Pride to Influence brings Canadian foreign policy into the twenty-first century.

Pearson's Peacekeepers describes Canada's role in the first peacekeeping effort mounted by the UN and uncovers realities, and challenges, that lie beneath the myth of Canada's peacekeeping mission.

Drawing on a wealth of artistic expression, this book explores how the arts and artists have shaped Canadian national identity.

This comprehensive exploration of the origins and development of family allowances offers inventive insights into Canada's welfare state and social policy over the past half century.

This book asks whether the doors to women's participation in Canadian public life are more open than in the past and probes how they can be opened further.

This book critically examines the commercialization of today's universities, under increasing economic pressure to develop human capital, science, and technology.