The University of British Columbia Press is Canada’s leading social sciences publisher. With an international reputation for publishing high-quality works of original scholarship, our books draw on and reflect cutting-edge research, pushing the boundaries of academic discourse in innovative directions. Each year UBC Press publishes seventy new titles in a number of fields, including Aboriginal studies, Asian studies, Canadian history, environmental studies, gender and women’s studies, health and food studies, geography, law, media and communications, military and security studies, planning and urban studies, and political science.
Bitter Feast
Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-64
The first book to pay serious attention to the European economic and political factors which promoted colonization, this book argues that the prime determinant was the uneven development of agricultural systems in western Europe.
- Copyright year: 1993
Four Centuries of Special Geography
An Annotated Guide to Books that Purport to Describe All the Countries in the World Published...
Lists all the works in the academic field of special geography published before 1888, and includes descriptions of each entry and notes on later editions.
- Copyright year: 1993
Land Resource Economics and Sustainable Development
Economic Policies and the Common Good
An introduction to issues of land use and the economic tools that are used to resolve land-use conflicts.
- Copyright year: 1993
Professional Child and Youth Care, Second Edition
The book covers a spectrum of key concerns within the field of child and youth care in Canada, and presents an analysis that spans a variety of program areas.
- Copyright year: 1993
Relocating Middle Powers
Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order
This book examines how two middle powers, Australia and Canada, are grappling with the difficult process of relocating themselves in the rapidly changing international economy.
- Copyright year: 1993
Ships and Memories
Merchant Seafarers in Canada's Age of Steam
An account of life on steamships, this book draws on the experiences of seafarers in peace and war and during the depression.
- Copyright year: 1993
The Green Economy
Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future
In The Green Economy, Michael Jacobs rejects both the traditional Green demand for 'zero growth' and the new economic orthodoxy which seeks to give the environment a monetary value.
- Copyright year: 1993
The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 30, 1992
The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.
- Copyright year: 1993
Decision at Midnight
Inside the Canada-US Free-Trade Negotiations
This is the story of the 1988 Free Trade Agreement negotiations between Canada and the US, the preparations for and conduct of the negotiations, as well as the ideas and issues behind them.
- Copyright year: 1994
Eagle Down Is Our Law
Witsuwit'en Law, Feasts, and Land Claims
The struggle of the Witsuwit'en peoples to establish the meaning of aboriginal rights.
- Copyright year: 1994
Environmental Health Risks and Public Policy
Decision Making in Free Societies
- Copyright year: 1994