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.
Making Native Space
Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
It presents the most comprehensive account available of perhaps the most critical mapping of space ever undertaken in BC – the drawing of the lines that separated the tiny plots of land reserved for Native people from the rest.
2003, Winner - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association
2003, Winner - Clio Award (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Association
2002, Shortlisted - Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Book Prize, British Columbia Book Awards
2003, Winner - Massey Medal, Royal Canadian Geographical Society
- Copyright year: 2002
Modern Women Modernizing Men
The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69
Explores how professionalism, religion, and feminism came together to enable missionary women to become the colleagues and mentors of Western and non-Western men.
2003, Shortlisted - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2002
Personal Relationships of Dependence and Interdependence in Law
This collection explores the intersection of interdependency and the law, and contemplates some of the key issues at stake in the way the law interprets and addresses human relationships.
2002, Winner - Canadian Policy Research Award for Outstanding Research Contribution
- Copyright year: 2002
Taxing Choices
The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law
This fascinating analysis of the controversial Symes case of the 1990s examines how class and gender interests clashed over the tax treatment of childcare.
2004, Winner - Harold Adams Innis Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Science
- Copyright year: 2002
Globalization and Well-Being
Throughout this concise and elegant book, John Helliwell emphasizes well-being as an explicit focus for research and for public policies.
2002, Winner - Donner Prize, Donner Foundation
- Copyright year: 2002
The Co-Workplace
Teleworking in the Neighbourhood
Borrowing from the experience of cooperative artists' studios, business incubators, and the corner copy shop, this book explains why office infrastructure can be important for productivity as well as the quality of work life.
2003, Winner - Diana C. Donald Award, American Planning Association, Planning and Women Division
- Copyright year: 2002