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.
Vancouver Short Stories
The stories in this collection present the experience of living in Vancouver as filtered through the imagination of some of Canada's most famous writers.
- Copyright year: 1985
The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 22, 1984
The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.
- Copyright year: 1985
A Narrow Vision
Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs in Canada
In A Narrow Vision, Brian Titley chronicles the career of Confederation poets Duncan Campbell Scott in the Department of Indian Affairs between 1880 and 1932.
- Copyright year: 1986
Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
Challenging standard dependency theory, William Carroll argues from empirical evidence that Canada's financial-industrial elite have maintained and consolidated their competitive position at the centre of an inter-corporate network.
- Copyright year: 1986
Hymns and the Christian Myth
In Hymns and the Christian Myth, Lionel Adey demonstrates that over the centuries shifts emphasizing particular elements of the Christian faith accord with the interests and concerns of the times in which the hymns were composed.
- Copyright year: 1986
Indian Education in Canada, Volume 1
The Legacy
The two volumes comprising Indian Education in Canada present the first full-length discussion of this important subject since the adoption in 1972 of a new federal policy moving toward Indian control of Indian education.
- Copyright year: 1986
Jack Shadbolt and the Coastal Indian Image
Here is Marjorie Halpin's insightful exploration of Aboriginal motifs in Jack Shadbolt's painting, which reveal his emotional sympathy with Coastal peoples and anticipates the cultural quickening of Aboriginal Canadian society in recent years.
- Copyright year: 1986
Robes of Power
Totem Poles on Cloth
Not only the first major publication to focus on button blankets, but also the first oral history about them and their place in the culture of the Northwest Coast.
- Copyright year: 1987
The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 23, 1985
The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.
- Copyright year: 1986
A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L
The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres
Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, this collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works.
- Copyright year: 1987
A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 2 M-End
The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres
Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works.
- Copyright year: 1987
Ethel Wilson
Stories, Essays, and Letters
The fullest biography of the Ethel Wilson to date.
- Copyright year: 1987