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.
Death or Deliverance
Canadian Courts Martial in the Great War
In this eye-opening account of military law in the Great War, courts martials emerge not as brutal, merciless dispensers of frontline justice but as courts capable of mercy.
2013, Winner - C.P. Stacey Award for scholarly work in Canadian Military History
- Copyright year: 2013
Decolonizing Education
Nourishing the Learning Spirit
An impassioned argument for Aboriginal education and critical engagement with Indigenous knowledges and traditions.
2014, Shortlisted - University of Regina Arts and Luther Award for Scholarly Writing, Saskatchewan Book Awards
2014, Shortlisted - Rasmussen, Rasmussen & Charowsky Aboriginal Peoples’ Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
- Copyright year: 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, Winner - K.D. Srivastava Prize, UBC Press
2014, Commended - Aboriginal History Prize, Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2013
Stalled
The Representation of Women in Canadian Governments
This book analyzes the representation of women in elected and appointed office in Canada to explain why gender parity remains elusive.
, Commended - The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2013
- Copyright year: 2013
Inventing Stanley Park
An Environmental History
A timely exploration of how the interplay between attitudes toward nature, parks policy, public memory, and the force of nature helped shape one of the world’s most famous urban parks.
2014, Shortlisted - Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia, UBC Library
2014, Commended - BC Historical Federation Book Prize
2014, Shortlisted - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Book Prize, BC Book Prizes
2014, Winner - CLIO Prize for BC, Canadian Historical Association
2013, Shortlisted - City of Vancouver Book Award
- Copyright year: 2013
The Canadian Rangers
A Living History
A lavishly illustrated history of the Canadian Rangers and their evolving role as defenders and stewards of Canada’s remote regions.
2014, Shortlisted - Dafoe Prize, The Dafoe Foundation
- Copyright year: 2013