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.
They Call Me Father
Memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola
These fascinating memoirs of Father Nicolas Coccola, a Corsican-born Oblatean who arrived in British Columbia in 1880, reveal the complexity of the work carried out by ordinary missionary priests.
- Copyright year: 1983
The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 25, 1987
The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.
- Copyright year: 1988
A Consolidated Index to the Canadian Yearbook of International Law
Volumes I-XXV(1962-1987)
This bilingual index makes accessible all of the material from the first twenty-five years of the history of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law.
- Copyright year: 1989
A White Man's Province
British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants 1858-1914
A revealing historical account of the complex racism in early British Columbia and the lives and contributions made to the province by its Chinese and Japanese residents.
- Copyright year: 1989
Canadian Oceans Policy
National Strategies and the New Law of the Sea
This book deals with Canada's oceans management policies since the conclusion of the 1982 Convention of the Law of the Sea.
- Copyright year: 1988
Chiefs of the Sea and Sky
Haida Heritage Sites of the Queen Charlotte Islands
Presents an overview of extensive research carried out by archeologist George MacDonald in the 1960s and 1970s to document the history of the Haida villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands.
- Copyright year: 1989
Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition
The remarkable journal of the 1864 Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition, a four-and-a-half-month journey that describes the island's pristine wilderness, as well as Cowichan, Chemainus, and Comox and the coal-mining town of Nanaimo.
- Copyright year: 1989
The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 26, 1988
The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.
- Copyright year: 1989
Aboriginal Peoples and Politics
The Indian Land Question in British Columbia, 1849-1989
This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of the land question in British Columbia and is the first to examine the modern political history of British Columbia Indians.
- Copyright year: 1990
Dear Nan
Letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney, and Humphrey Toms
This collection includes 150 letters Emily Carr wrote to her friends Nan Cheney and Humphrey Toms, and 100 other letters relating mainly to Emily Carr written between 1930 to 1945, the most prolific period in Carr's career as both painter and writer.
- Copyright year: 1990
Native Writers and Canadian Writing
A co-publication with the journal Canadian Literature – Canada's foremost literary journal – this collection examines the growing prominence of contemporary Native writing.
- Copyright year: 1991
Words We Call Home
Celebrating Creative Writing at UBC
Gives voice to several generations of Canadian writers in their restless search for literary identity. - Calgary Herald
- Copyright year: 1990