Books published by University of British Columbia Press

Lively, impassioned and informed, these essays provide insight into the relationship between academic freedom and the inclusive university.

Telling Tales both challenges founding myths of the region and inspires rethinking of how we tell the story of western Canadian colonization and settlement.

This volume explores the changing relationship between regionalism and multilateralism and examine the implications for national policy in a global trading system.

This volume explores the changing relationship between regionalism and multilateralism and examine the implications for national policy in a global trading system.

Wing Chung Ng captures the fascinating story of the city's Chinese in their search for identity.

"No one tradition alone offers a sufficient respect for other species. Taken together, they may offer a prospect for saner human-animal relations." - From the book

An ethnographic case study of Williams Lake. Elizabeth Furniss looks at the roots of social conflicts and examines how prevalent colonial assumptions of history, identity and Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relations affect the lives of all residents.

This book addresses the major problems facing policy-makers and managers in sustaining biological diversity in managed forests.

Peter Ward looks at how spaces in the Canadian home have changed over the last three centuries, and how family and social relationships have shaped - and been shaped by - these changing spaces.

This book is a pioneering attempt to consider the concrete policy implications of the much discussed transition to sustainable forestry.

The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.

In Borderlands, W.H. New poetically and metaphorically considers the image of 'the border' in Canada and how it affects the way Canadians look at themselves and their society.

In this revised edition of Canada and Quebec, Robert Bothwell describes the lead-up to the October 1995 referendum and traces political developments from its immediate aftermath to the present.

Gamblers and Dreamers tackles some of the myths about the history of the North in the era of the gold rush.

This engaging collection of essays seeks to create an awareness of the contributions made by women to history and the historical profession from 1870 to 1970 in English Canada.

This engaging collection of essays seeks to create an awareness of the contributions made by women to history and the historical profession from 1870 to 1970 in English Canada.

This timely book is the first complete descriptive grammar of Lillooet, an indigenous Canadian language spoken in British Columbia, now threatened with extinction.

The culmination of more than 25 years of effort, this much-awaited final volume of The Birds of British Columbia completes what some have called one of the most important regional ornithological works in North America.

This books examines the Hudson's Bay company exploration efforts beyond the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean from 1793 to 1843 - which led to the commercial development of the Pacific coast and the Cordilleran interior of western North America.

This book introduces the reader to this unique theatrical form through an exciting series of photographs of operatic performances from many regions of the country.

These essays aim to address, and redress, this bias of the colonial doctrine that continues to define and shape Aboriginal and treaty rights in the Canadian legal system.

This book is a clarion call for a balanced, objective approach to forestry issues, including clearcutting, slashburning, old growth, and management chemicals.

This book is the most recent major work on the ecology and management of Sitka spruce.

Achieving Sustainable Development provides an overall introduction to critical subjects in sustainable development -- industrial growth, women, institutional arrangements, industrial practices, and aboriginal people -- and argues for the immediate development of a research and policy agenda for Canada and suggests mechanisms for its implementation.

A provocative account of one of the greatest entrepreneurial failures in Canadian history, this book documents the downfall of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, which helped develop the north-central corridor of British Columbia - then collapsed dramatically in 1919.

A comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of classical Chinese.

This classic in Yukon gold rush literature was originally published in 1900 and has long been out of print.

This book provides the first systematic and comparative treatment of the social policy of assimilation that was followed in these three countries.

The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.