Books published by University of British Columbia Press

This volume contains contributions from twenty-four scholars concerning the significance and implications of the world's borderlands in economic, political, and socio-cultural contexts.

Comparative law and legal anthropology have traditionally restricted themselves to their own fields of inquiry. Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities turns this tendency on its head and investigates what happens when ...

An exploration of one little-known mineral, and the social, political, and economic forces that shaped both its history and the twentieth century.

Laura Westra argues that international and environmental law must place the rights of the collective before those of the individual if we are to protect our common heritage -- the environment, its air, water, and biodiversity -- and ensure humanity's survival.

This book provides a multidisciplinary framework to understand the complexities of the post-Soviet international system, a system that is multipolar, ideologically heterogeneous, and highly unstable.

This book examines current theory, methods, and ethics underlying global trends in involving publics in the governance of new technologies.

This book explores the tension between Aboriginal justice methods and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, while searching for practical ways to implement Aboriginal justice.

Examines how alcohol, opium, and addiction were portrayed in the culture of China's Northeast during the first half of the twentieth century.

Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada is the first work to focus sustained and serious attention on the wider implications of Aboriginal peoples' involvement in sport.

Exploring the diverse roles fathers play in their children's lives, Father Involvement in Canada provides a timely synopsis of current knowledge while challenging many long-held assumptions about fatherhood.

This book chronicles the first century of Canadian border control, revealing how policies have been influenced by changing perceptions of the rights of non-citizens.

Boundless Optimism is the definitive biography of Premier Richard McBride and a revealing portrait of British Columbia during a time of great volatility and great expectations.

A stirring portrait of a controversial Kwakwaka'wakw leader and the efforts of her descendants to reconcile a difficult history in the hopes of forging a positive cultural identity for future generations.

This timely book evaluates and compares alleged democratic deficits in Canada and the United States and proposes solutions to remedy them.

Still Dying for a Living investigates the state's (in)ability to develop effective legal strategies for holding corporations accountable for serious injury and death in the workplace.

Native women share their knowledge and insights about leadership at the community level.

Tells the complex story of the relationship between Plains Indians and Canadian criminal law as it took root in their land.

Using innovative methods, this book shows how prime ministerial power was centralized from the very beginning of Confederation by Macdonald, Laurier, and Borden.

This perceptive intellectual history of masculinity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec explores how the concept of manhood shaped French Canadian culture and an emerging Quebec nationalism.

The first full-length historical exploration of individual violence in the automotive industry, Blood, Sweat, and Fear taps the class, race, and gendered roots of the workplace as battleground.

How has race shaped Canada's international encounters and its role in the world? In this book, leading scholars grapple with these complex questions, destabilizing conventional understandings of Canada in the world. It calls for reengagement with the histories of those marginalized in, or excluded from, the historical record.

This book provides a provocative look at the growth of non-stop election campaigning in Canada and its implications for Canadian democracy and how we are governed.

This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Irish Catholic neighbourhood in Montreal, brings to life the history of Irish identity and collective memory in this legendary enclave.

Although cars and roads promised freedom, they offered drivers a curated view of the landscape. This book takes readers on a journey through the history of roads, highways, and motoring in British Columbia's Interior, a remote landscape composed of plateaus and interlocking valleys, soaring mountains and treacherous passes.

In this unsettling analysis of the breast cancer movement in Canada, health activist, scholar, award-winning journalist, and cancer survivor Sharon Batt investigates the changing relationship between patient advocacy groups and the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the contentious role of pharma funding.

Patriation and Its Consequences examines the political events and struggles that resulted in the 1981 agreement to patriate the Canadian constitution and sheds light on the political consequences of this key moment in Canadian history.

Five unique case studies reveal how crime is being constructed and enforced in contemporary Canada.

This volume furthers the multiculturalism debate by assessing whether public institutions are capable of evaluating minority group claims fairly.

This book presents a case study of an academic conference where various actors sought to circumscribe the exploration of a controversial idea - the one-state model for Israel and Palestine - and it throws into stark relief the vulnerability and importance of academic freedom.