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.
The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 19, 1981
The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.
- Copyright year: 1982
As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows
A Reader in Canadian Native Studies
This collection of papers focuses on Canadian Native history since 1763 and presents an overview of official Canadian Indian policy and its effects on the Indian, Inuit, and Metis.
- Copyright year: 1983
Haida Monumental Art
Villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands
Combining archeology and ethnohistory, this book presents an integrated framework for understanding the physical structure of a Haida village, through remarkable photographs, site plans and detailed descriptions of fifteen major villages
- Copyright year: 1994
Ninstints
Haida World Heritage Site
George MacDonald combines archival material and scientific and photographic evidence to record what is known of the history of Ninstints and its people.
- Copyright year: 1983
Tense and Aspect in Modern Colloquial Japanese
This work lays the foundation for a systematization of aspectual categories on the basis of realized versus unrealized rather than completive and incompletive categories.
- Copyright year: 1983
The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 20, 1982
The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.
- Copyright year: 1983
A Sarcee Grammar
This book presents a comprehensive grammar, dealing with deals with all major areas of linguistic structure, including syntax, phonology, and morphology of Sarcee, an Athapaskan language spoken in southern Alberta.
- Copyright year: 1984
The Subarctic Fur Trade
Native Social and Economic Adaptations
- Copyright year: 1984
The Tsimshian
Images of the Past, Views for the Present
This volume examines Tsimshian culture from the prehistoric period to the recent past and includes contributions from such diverse perspectives as archaeology, linguistics, and social anthropology.
- Copyright year: 1984
The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 21, 1983
The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.
- Copyright year: 1984
Field and Theory
Lectures in Geocryology
This collection of papers by internationally known scientists in the field of geocryology was originally presented as a series of lectures at the University of British Columbia in 1980-1 in honour of J. Ross MacKay.
- Copyright year: 1985