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.
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.
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
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.
2013, Winner - Gourmand Best Drink History Book (Canada-English), Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
- Copyright year: 2012
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.
2013, Shortlisted - Canada Prize in the Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Copyright year: 2012
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.
, Commended - The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2013
- Copyright year: 2012
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.
2013, Winner - Hal K. Rothman Award, Western History Association
- Copyright year: 2012
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.
, Commended - The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2012
- Copyright year: 2012