Ubc Press: 266 books
From Left to Right
Maternalism and Women’s Political Activism in Postwar Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Canadian history, women and gender studies, and political history.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada seeks to elucidate the complex and often uneasy relationship between law and religion in democracies committed both to equal citizenship and religious pluralism. Leading socio-legal scholars consider the role of religious values in public decision making, government...
Putting Family First
Migration and Integration in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Putting Family First illustrates how the family context can be mobilized to facilitate the successful integration of newcomers. In the process, it provides a ground-up perspective that gives voice to newcomer families and community partners and offers important guidance to practitioners and policy...
Infidels and the Damn Churches
Irreligion and Religion in Settler British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
This book will hold broad appeal for students and scholars of social history, cultural history, BC and Canadian history, religious studies, women’s studies, immigration and migration studies, Asian studies, and labour and the Left.
Griffintown
Identity and Memory in an Irish Diaspora Neighbourhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Irish Catholic neighbourhood in Montreal, brings to life the history of Irish identity in the legendary enclave. Once a destination for many from the Emerald Isle, Montreal saw Irish immigration dwindle in the late nineteenth century. Irish culture...
Fighting with the Empire
Canada, Britain, and Global Conflict, 1867–1947
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Canadians often characterize their military history as a march toward nationhood, but in the first eighty years of Confederation they were fighting for the British Empire.
From 1867 to 1947, war or threat of war forced Canadians to define and redefine their relationship to Britain and to one...
The Last Suffragist Standing
The Life and Times of Laura Marshall Jamieson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
The Last Suffragist Standing is an unprecedented study of a pioneering Canadian suffragist and politician, a New Woman who tested Canadian democracy.
A rich product of archival and public sources, this biography of Laura Marshall Jamieson (1882–1964) opens a window onto the political and...
Engaging the Line
How the Great War Shaped the Canada–US Border
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
This book will be an invaluable resource for those studying the First World War, borderland culture, the military history of the North American home front, and political culture.
War-Torn Exchanges
The Lives and Letters of Nursing Sisters Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Laura Holland and Mildred Forbes, an inseparable duo, set off from Montreal in June 1915 to serve as nursing sisters in the Great War. Over the next four years, the two cared for each other through sickness and health, air raids and bombings, unrelenting work and adventurous leaves.
War-Torn...
Made in Nunavut
An Experiment in Decentralized Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
After years of negotiation, the territory of Nunavut was established in Canada’s Eastern and Central Arctic on April 1, 1999. Made in Nunavut provides the first behind-the-scenes account of the planning that led to this remarkable achievement. The authors, leading authorities on the politics of...
Our Voices Must Be Heard
Women and the Vote in Ontario
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
On Election Day 1844, seven widows cast ballots in Canada West, a display of feminist effrontery that was quickly punished: the government struck a law excluding women from the vote. It would be seven decades before women regained voting rights in Ontario.
Our Voices Must Be Heard asks why...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
What kind of peace is possible in the post-9/11 world? Is sustainable peace an illusion in a world where foreign military interventions are replacing peace negotiations as starting points for postwar reconstruction? What would it take to achieve durable peace in contexts as different as Afghanistan,...
Representation in Action
Canadian MPs in the Constituencies
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Members of Parliament (MPs) are often dismissed as “trained seals,” helpless to do anything other than take commands from party leaders. Representation in Action challenges this view of Canadian MPs and shows that the ways they represent their constituents are as diverse as Canada itself. Royce...
The Business of Women
Marriage, Family, and Entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901-51
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Throughout history, Western women have inhabited a conceptual space divorced from the world of business. But women have always engaged in business. Who were these women, and how were they able to justify their work outside the home? The Business of Women explores the world of those women who embraced...