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.
Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest
Production, Science, and Regulation
This book integrates class, environmental, and political analysis to uncover the history of clearcutting in the Douglas fir forests of BC, Washington, and Oregon between 1880 and 1965.
1997, Winner - Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award, Forest History Society
- Copyright year: 1998
Animals and Nature
Cultural Myths, Cultural Realities
“No one tradition alone offers a sufficient respect for other species. Taken together, they may offer a prospect for saner human-animal relations.”
2000, Winner - Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
2002, Shortlisted - Raymond Klibansky Prize, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Copyright year: 1999
Colonizing Bodies
Aboriginal Health and Healing in British Columbia, 1900-50
This detailed but highly readable ethnohistory shows how a pluralistic medical system evolved among Canada’s most populous Aboriginal population.
1999, Winner - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association
1999, Winner - Clio Award (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Association
2000, Winner - Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
- Copyright year: 1998
Once Upon an Oldman
Special Interest Politics and the Oldman River Dam
Once Upon an Oldman is an account of the controversy that surrounded the Alberta government's construction of a dam on the Oldman River to provide water for irrigation in the southern part of the province.
2000, Winner - Clio Award (Alberta), Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 1999
No Place to Run
The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War
This book is a reevaluation of the Canadian Corps and poison gas in WWI. It examines how the Canadian Corps organized and protected its soldiers from poison gas.
2002, Winner - Charles P. Stacey Award
1999, Commended - Alcuin Citation for excellence in book design in Canada, Alcuin Society
- Copyright year: 2000
Smithsonian Book of North American Mammals
1999, Winner - Reference Award, American Association of University Presses
- Copyright year: 1999