Awards

UBC Press is proud to publish outstanding scholarly works by some of the world’s preeminent scholars. We congratulate our authors and volume editors who have been recognized with awards and citations.

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Standing Up with G̲a'ax̱sta'las

Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom

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.

Awards

2014, Winner - CCWH Book Award, Canadian Committee on Women’s History

2013, Winner - Aboriginal History Prize, Canadian Historical Association

2013, Winner - Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize, American Society for Ethnohistory

2013, Shortlisted - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, BC Book Prizes

2013, Joint winner - K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing

2015, Shortlisted - The François-Xavier Garneau Medal, Canadian Historical Association

2013, Winner - CLIO Prize for BC, Canadian Historical Association

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Intoxicating Manchuria

Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast

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

Awards

2013, Winner - Gourmand Best Drink History Book (Canada-English), Gourmand World Cookbook Awards

  • Copyright year: 2012
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Fractured Homeland

Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario

An examination of the struggle for identity and nationhood among non-status Algonquin during the negotiation of a major comprehensive land claim.

Awards

2013, Shortlisted - Canada Prize in the Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Copyright year: 2012
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International Trade Law and Domestic Policy

Canada, the United States, and the WTO

An innovative assessment of the extent to which international judicial bodies influence domestic law and policy arrangements.

Awards

, Commended - The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2013

  • Copyright year: 2012
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The Nature of Borders

Salmon, Boundaries, and Bandits on the Salish Sea

This transnational view provides an understanding of the modern Pacific salmon crisis and reorients borderlands studies towards the Canada-US border while providing a new view of how Native Borders worked.

Awards

2013, Winner - Hal K. Rothman Award, Western History Association

  • Copyright year: 2012
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So Near Yet So Far

The Public and Hidden Worlds of Canada–US Relations

This book provides an in-depth look at the multiple dimensions of Canada–US relations in the areas of politics, security, trade, and energy, with a particular emphasis on the period since 9/11.

Awards

, Commended - The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2012

  • Copyright year: 2012
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