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.
Crerar’s Lieutenants
Inventing the Canadian Junior Army Officer, 1939-45
This book illustrates not only the challenges many junior officers faced during the Second World War, it also points to the enduring problem of living up to the image of an ideal middle-class male.
2017, Winner - C.P. Stacey Award for scholarly work in Canadian Military History
- Copyright year: 2017
China Gadabouts
New Frontiers of Humanitarian Nursing, 1941–51
This critical reassessment of the Quaker-sponsored humanitarian nursing convoy in 1940s China will deepen understanding of the ethical, cultural, and political barriers to delivering humanitarian assistance then and now.
2018, Winner - Lavina L. Dock Award, American Association for the History of Nursing
- Copyright year: 2018
Guiding Modern Girls
Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s
By analyzing how the Girl Guide movement sought to maintain social stability in England, Canada, and India during the 1920s and 1930s, this book reveals the ways in which girls and young women understood, reworked, and sometimes challenged the expectations placed on them by the world’s largest voluntary organization for girls.
2019, Shortlisted - 2019 Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association
2018, Winner - Founder's Prize for Best English-language Book, Canadian History of Education Association
2017, Winner - Wilson Book Prize, The Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University
- Copyright year: 2017
Give and Take
The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy
Enthralling, witty, and masterful, Give and Take brings to light Canada’s surprisingly unruly tax history, showing the tax clashes and compromises that made Canadian democracy.
2019, Winner - 2019 Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History, Canadian Historical Association
2019, Shortlisted - Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
2020, Winner - François-Xavier Garneau Medal, Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2017
Claire L’Heureux-Dubé
A Life
Going beyond jurisprudential legacy to provide rich sociocultural context, Claire L’Heureux-Dubé is an exploration of the controversial and historically transformative career of the first Quebec woman on Canada’s Supreme Court.
2018, Winner - CLSA Book Prize, Canadian Law and Society Association
2019, Shortlisted - Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
2018, Shortlisted - City of Ottawa Book Award
- Copyright year: 2017
The Politics of War
Canada’s Afghanistan Mission, 2001–14
The Politics of War analyzes the impact of political elites, Parliament, and public opinion on Canada’s mission in Afghanistan to demonstrate how much of Canada’s involvement was shaped by the vagaries of domestic politics.
2019, Shortlisted - CPSA Prize in International Relations, Canadian Political Science Association
- Copyright year: 2017