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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.
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Canadian Foreign Policy and International Economic Regimes

This volume is an important and timely analysis of past and current Canadian policies toward both the formal and less formal arrangements which regulate such areas as international trade and financial transactions, international service industries, fisheries resources, and the environment.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes

The Anthropology of Museums

Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes poses a number of probing questions about the role and responsibility of museums and anthropology in the contemporary world.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Contact and Conflict

Indian-European Relations in British Columbia, 1774-1890 (2nd edition)

Originally published in 1977, Contact and Conflict has inspired numerous scholars to examine further the relationships between the Indians and the Europeans – fur traders as well as settlers.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Kwakiutl String Figures

Kwakiutl String Figures will interest students of comparative cultures and will delight all who have time (and string) on their hands.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Our Chiefs and Elders

Words and Photographs of Native Leaders

David Neel presents us with a magnificent series of images of Native chiefs and elders which sharply contrasts with earlier depictions of Natives as “noble savages” or representatives of a “vanishing race.”

  • Copyright year: 1992
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The Early Years of Native American Art History

The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting

This collection of essays deals with the development of Native American art history as a discipline.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia

Helena Gutteridge, the Unknown Reformer

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Thomas Crosby and the Tsimshian

Small Shoes for Feet Too Large

Clarence Bolt demonstrates that the Aboriginal peoples of Canada were conscious participants in the acculturation and conversion process -- as long as this met their goals.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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Whose North?

Political Change, Political Development, and Self Government in the Northwest Territories

This provides the context for a better understanding of these issues and traces the evolution of an innovative, increasingly indigenous, governmental process.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 29, 1991

Edited by C.B. Bourne

The Yearbook contains articles of lasting significance in the field of international legal studies.

  • Copyright year: 1992
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A Reader in International Relations and Political Theory

The book includes excerpts and essays from political theory and international relations which provide a starting point for further study of these subjects, given the large number of newly independent states which are writing new constitutions and developing foreign relations.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Asia-Pacific Diplomacy

Nongovernmental Organizations and International Relations

Asia-Pacific Diplomacy traces the evolution of the Pacific economic cooperation movement by examining the diplomatic contributions of three international nongovernmental organizations

  • Copyright year: 1993
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