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.
Food Will Win the War
The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front
A wide-ranging account of how millions of Canadians enlisted to fight on the kitchen front in order to win the war for food.
2015, Joint winner - Political History Group Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2014
The Muslim Question in Canada
A Story of Segmented Integration
This book offers a fresh account of the socio-economic experiences of Muslims in Canada, drawing on the newest data sources available.
2015, Winner - John Porter Tradition of Excellence Prize, Canadian Sociological Association
- Copyright year: 2014
Equality Deferred
Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953-84
A history of human rights law in Canada, with a focus on sex discrimination in British Columbia.
2015, Shortlisted - Donald Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association
2015, Winner - CLIO Prize for British Columbia, Canadian Historical Association
2015, Commended - CLSA Book Award, Canadian Law and Society Association
2016, Shortlisted - Canada Prize in the Social Sciences, Federation for the Social Sciences and Humanities
- Copyright year: 2014
Coping with Calamity
Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949
The first environmental and socioeconomic history of the Jianghan plain in central China, focusing on the peasants’ relationship with a volatile environment.
2014, Winner - Academic Excellence Award, Chinese Historians in the United States (CHUS)
2015, Winner - Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kennesaw State University
- Copyright year: 2014
Oral History at the Crossroads
Sharing Life Stories of Survival and Displacement
Drawing on a collaborative research project, this book provides an alternative model for how oral and public histories should be recorded and curated.
2015, Winner - CLIO Prize for Quebec, Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2014
Written as I Remember It
Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder
This extraordinary book not only offers a rare glimpse into the life of a Coast Salish woman and the teachings of the Sliammon people, it also offers a fruitful model for collaborative research and life-history writing.
2015, Winner - Armitage-Jameson Book Prize, Coalition for Western Women’s History
2015, Winner - Aboriginal History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association
2015, Commended - BCHF Historical Writing Awards, British Columbia Historical Federation
- Copyright year: 2014