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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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Bitter Feast

Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-64

By Denys Delâge; Translated by Jane Brierley

The first book to pay serious attention to the European economic and political factors which promoted colonization, this book argues that the prime determinant was the uneven development of agricultural systems in western Europe.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Four Centuries of Special Geography

An Annotated Guide to Books that Purport to Describe All the Countries in the World Published...

Lists all the works in the academic field of special geography published before 1888, and includes descriptions of each entry and notes on later editions.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Land Resource Economics and Sustainable Development

Economic Policies and the Common Good

An introduction to issues of land use and the economic tools that are used to resolve land-use conflicts.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Professional Child and Youth Care, Second Edition

The book covers a spectrum of key concerns within the field of child and youth care in Canada, and presents an analysis that spans a variety of program areas.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Relocating Middle Powers

Australia and Canada in a Changing World Order

This book examines how two middle powers, Australia and Canada, are grappling with the difficult process of relocating themselves in the rapidly changing international economy.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Ships and Memories

Merchant Seafarers in Canada's Age of Steam

An account of life on steamships, this book draws on the experiences of seafarers in peace and war and during the depression.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Yukon

The Last Frontier

  • Copyright year: 1993
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The Green Economy

Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future

In The Green Economy, Michael Jacobs rejects both the traditional Green demand for 'zero growth' and the new economic orthodoxy which seeks to give the environment a monetary value.

  • Copyright year: 1993
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The Canadian Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 30, 1992

Edited by C.B. Bourne

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

  • Copyright year: 1993
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Decision at Midnight

Inside the Canada-US Free-Trade Negotiations

This is the story of the 1988 Free Trade Agreement negotiations between Canada and the US, the preparations for and conduct of the negotiations, as well as the ideas and issues behind them.

  • Copyright year: 1994
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Eagle Down Is Our Law

Witsuwit'en Law, Feasts, and Land Claims

The struggle of the Witsuwit'en peoples to establish the meaning of aboriginal rights.

  • Copyright year: 1994
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Environmental Health Risks and Public Policy

Decision Making in Free Societies

  • Copyright year: 1994
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