University of British Columbia Press

A comprehensive look at how Canadians are responding to the forces of globalization through collectively owned enterprises.Publisher: University of...

This accessible but theoretically sophisticated volume reveals how neoliberalism - as both an economic project and a broader political approach - h...

What kind of peace is possible in the post-9/11 world? Is sustainable peace an illusion in a world where foreign military interventions are replaci...

Assesses the historical development and societal impact of the motorcycle industry, from the influence of motor sports on vehicle sales in the earl...

In Disability Injustice, scholars and activists deliver a much-needed and long overdue analysis of disability and criminalization in Canada.Publish...

Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional historical accounts to consider the national and transnational colonial dimensions of the Komag...

This wide-ranging collection examines the historical roles of Indigenous women, their intellectual and activist work, and the relevance of contempo...

Changing Neighbourhoods offers revealing insights into the way that Canadian cities have grown increasingly unequal and polarized since 1980, ident...

A comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of classical Chinese.Publisher: University of British Columbia PressAuthor(s): Edwin G. Pu...

As China's international influence grows, this timely collection reveals how the global movement of the country's people, culture, information, and...

The first substantial study of family correspondence and settler colonialism, Nothing to Write Home About elucidates the significance of trans-impe...

Digital technologies have changed the world, transforming how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, produce, distribute, and consume. Digit...

Bringing together the world's leading scholars on the subject, Military Education and the British Empire explores distinct national narratives with...

Assisted Suicide in Canada provides an accessible, up-to-date introduction to this vitally important topic of ongoing public debate.Publisher: Univ...

Part of a series designed to explore the role of law in structuring human relationships, this collection of essays re-evaluates the public-private ...

Introduces readers to the avian skeleton, then moves beyond anatomy to discuss the relationships between birds and dinosaurs and other early ancest...

Making the Case provides clear explanations of how law protects sexual minority rights, making it an essential resource for supporting 2SLGBTQ+ stu...

The New NDP traces the tumultuous shift in federal New Democratic Party's ideology and campaigning techniques in the opening decades of the twenty-...

Almost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS: Contributions from Critical Social Science demonstrates t...

A history of the modern concept of water that traces how a scientific abstraction has helped to produce a global crisis.Publisher: University of Br...

By exploring the social issues of aging and debunking the common myths, Getting Wise about Getting Old paints a more accurate and nuanced portrait ...

Canadian Foreign Policy brings together leading scholars in a lively, engaging meditation on the current state and future direction of the Canadian...

Red Light Labour, the first book to examine sex work policy and advocacy since Canada v. Bedford, showcases the perspectives of sex workers and act...

Making the Case provides clear explanations of how law protects sexual minority rights, making it an essential resource for supporting 2SLGBTQ+ stu...

By showing how Muslim Canadians successfully navigate and negotiate their religiosity in their everyday lives, Beyond Accommodation critiques the r...

An original, parsimonious, and elegant explanation of why we vote or abstain in elections.Publisher: University of British Columbia PressAuthor(s):...

This is the first global survey of how natural resources have been regulated in the modern world.

The first comprehensive analysis of the Canadian reference power, Seeking the Court's Advice examines how policy makers use the courts strategicall...

This timely volume brings insights from multiple disciplines to bear on debates about declining fertility rates and modern approaches to child rais...

In examining how the technologies of museum bureaucracy - the ledger book, the card catalogue, the database - operate through a colonial lens, Cata...

A compelling new perspective on Canada's planning history that offers a counter-narrative to the "official" story of the profession, one that has g...

Writing the Hamat sa critically surveys more than two centuries worth of published, archival, and oral sources to trace the attempted prohibition, ...

Exploring the making and experience of a lesbian feminist haunted house, this book reframes and reclaims queer feminist histories with humour, prov...

This is the first global survey of how natural resources have been regulated in the modern world.Publisher: University of British Columbia PressIll...

This intriguing study sheds light on Canada's relationship with Ireland, revealing the origins, trials, and successes of the intimate and at times ...

This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Irish Catholic neighbourhood in Montreal, brings to life the history of Irish identity and col...

This illuminating account of the St. Catherine's case of the 1880s reveals the erroneous assumptions and racism inherent in judgments that would de...

Feel confident stepping into your role as a TA with help from this short, practical guide, which demystifies everything from how to interact with c...

Rare Merit illuminates the impact of women as portraitists, travel documentarians, photojournalists, fine artists, hobbyists, and printers in the e...

Queen of the Maple Leaf reveals the role of beauty pageants in entrenching settler femininity and white heteropatriarchy at the heart of twentieth-...

Countering colonial ideas about Indigenous peoples being frozen in time and without a future, this provocative book explores the ways in which memb...

Culture and the Soldier offers a long-overdue examination of how culture - defined as reproduced identities, values, and norms - both shapes the mi...

Drawing on radical democratic theory and the ideas of political theorist Guy Debord, Rethinking the Spectacle examines the tension between spectacl...

This fascinating account of Ontario's 1980s' censor wars shows that when art intersects with law, artists have the power to transform the law, and ...

David Boyd shows that recognition of the right to a healthy environment is not only growing, it is having a profound influence on public policy and...

Planning on the Edge explores the reality behind the rhetoric of Vancouver's reputation as a sustainable city and paves the way for developing Vanc...

Drawing on radical democratic theory and the ideas of political theorist Guy Debord, Rethinking the Spectacle examines the tension between spectacl...

The Last Suffragist Standing is an unprecedented study of a pioneering Canadian suffragist and politician and an illuminating work on the history o...

An ethnography about historical and contemporary ideas of human difference expressed by residents of Fernie, BC, a coal-mining town transforming in...

In this essential guide, university counsellor Janet Miller draws on her wit, wisdom, and decades of experience to help first-time students - of wh...

This intoxicating look at the history of drug regulation in Canada reveals how a variety of social and political forces converged at the turn of th...

To Be Equals in Our Own Country chronicles the bitter struggle for women's suffrage in Quebec, the last province to grant Canadian women this funda...

Assembling Unity traces the history of pan-Indigenous unity in British Columbia through political negotiations, gendered activism, and the balance ...

From the sidewalk to City Hall, in the corporate boardroom, and around the kitchen table, The Heart of Toronto traces the power dynamics and projec...

A timely anthropological examination of the effect of land claims settlements and co-management of resources on the Kluane First Nation of the Sout...

From the sidewalk to City Hall, in the corporate boardroom, and around the kitchen table, The Heart of Toronto traces the power dynamics and projec...

This major new study examines, for the first time, the US, Canadian, and British policies formulated in reaction to the mass atrocities at the birt...

Making and Breaking Settler Space deftly explores how power and space are organized under settler colonialism in order to uncover decolonization op...

What trends are shaping contemporary political communication and behaviour in Canada, and where are they heading? What's Trending in Canadian Polit...

Describes the introduction of English studies in India under British rule and its function as an effective form of political control

At the Mercy of Their Clothes explores the agency of fashion in modern literature. Celia Marshik's study combines close readings of modernist and m...

Publisher: University Press of AmericaAuthor(s): R. B. HerathNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 21Cover type: Paperb...