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.
Dispersed but Not Destroyed
A History of the Seventeenth-Century Wendat People
Through the prisms of leadership, women, and power, this book traces the Wendat diaspora beyond a discourse of destruction and into a new world of rejuvenation and hope.
2014, Short-listed - Aboriginal History Prize, Canadian Historical Association
2013, Winner - CSN-REC Book Prize, Canadian Studies Network – Réseau d’études canadiennes
2014, Winner - John A. Ewers Award, Western History Association
2014, Short-listed - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association
Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty
An Anishnabe Understanding of Treaty One
A comprehensive evaluation of how negotiations for Treaty One were shaped by Aboriginal Anishinabe laws
2014, Winner - Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, Manitoba Book Awards
2014, Winner - Margaret McWilliams Scholarly Book Award, Manitoba Historical Society
Parties, Elections, and the Future of Canadian Politics
The first comprehensive account in decades of major party system change in Canada.
, Commended - The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2013
Where Happiness Dwells
A History of the Dane-zaa First Nations
This innovative blend of oral history and anthropological commentary documents how the Dane-zaa survived and flourished for millennia in northern BC.
2014, Commended - Aboriginal History Prize, Canadian Historical Association
2014, Winner - K.D. Srivastava Prize, UBC Press
Unjust by Design
Canada’s Administrative Justice System
This book describes a Canadian administrative justice system in transcendent need of fundamental structural reform and provides a detailed blueprint for change.
2014, Short-listed - 2013/2014 Donner Prize, The Donner Foundation
, Commended - The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2013
Glorify the Empire
Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo
An investigation into the intersection of Japanese imperialist politics and left-wing, avant-garde arts and culture in 1930s and ’40s Manchukuo.
2014, Winner - Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Book Prize
