University of British Columbia Press

January 29, 2015

Website: http://www.ubcpress.ca/

Description: UBC Press is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost publishers of political science, Native studies, and forestry books. Other areas of particular strength are Asian studies, Canadian history, environmental studies, planning, and urban studies.

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Books Reviewed by Canadian Literature

Mischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art, and the Seriousness of Play by Nicola Levell
The Theatre of Regret: Literature, Art, and the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada by David Gaertner
The Nature of Canada by Colin M. Coates and Graeme Wynn
Gender, Power & Representations of Cree Law by Emily Snyder
Otter’s Journey through Indigenous Language and Law by Lindsay Keegitah Borrows
Aboriginal Peoples and the Law: A Critical Introduction by Jim Reynolds
The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigineity at Canadian Universities by Frances Henry, Enakshi Dua, Carl E. James, Audrey Kobayashi, Peter Li, Howard Ramos and Malinda S. Smith
Mixed Blessings: Indigenous Encounters with Christianity in Canada by Tolly Bradford and Chelsea Horton
Invocations: The Poetry and Prose of Gwendolyn MacEwen by Jan Bartley
Time Travel: Tourism and the Rise of the Living History Museum in Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada by Alan Gordon
Exhibiting Nation: Multicultural Nationalism (and Its Limits) in Canada’s Museums by Caitlin Gordon-Walker
Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley by Sarah Marie Wiebe
Power through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation by Brieg Capitaine and Karine Vanthuyne
Science of the Seance: Transnational Networks and Gendered Bodies in the Study of Psychic Phenomena, 1918-40 by Beth A. Robertson
Wild Flowers by Emily Carr
North to Bondage: Loyalist Slavery in the Maritimes by Harvey Armani Whitfield
Beyond Afghanistan: An International Security Agenda for Canada by James Fergusson and Francis Furtado
The Iconic North: Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life in Postwar Canada by Joan Sangster
Queer Mobilizations: Social Movement Activism and Canadian Public Policy by Manon Tremblay
Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84 by Liz Millward
Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging by OmiSoore H. Dryden and Suzanne Lenon
French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest by Jean Barman
Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge by Edward Struzik
Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic by Emilie Cameron
Cultivating Connections: The Making of Chinese Prairie Canada by Alison R. Marshall
Indigenous in the City: Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation by Evelyn Peters and Chris Andersen
Written as I Remember It: Teachings (??ms ta?aw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder by Elise Paul, Paige Raibmon and Harmony Johnson
Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture by Jean Barman, Jeanne Perreault, Cheryl Suzack and Shari M. Huhndorf
Standing Up with Ga'axsta'las: Jane Constance Cook and the Politics of Memory, Church, and Custom by Leslie A. Robertson and Kwagu'l Gixsam Clan
Gendered News: Media Coverage and Electoral Politics in Canada by Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant
"Métis": Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood by Chris Anderson
Canoe Nation: Nature, Rice, and the Making of a Canadian Icon by Bruce Erikson
Feminist History in Canada: News Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation by Catherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek
Wyndham Lewis in Canada by George Woodcock
Storied Communities by Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson and Jeremy Webber
Ghost Dancing with Colonialism by Grace Li Xiu Woo
Oral History on Trial by Bruce Granville Miller
Beyond Blood by Pamela D. Palmater
The Strength of Women by Priscilla Settee
A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw
First Person Plural by Sophie McCall
The Technological Imperative in Canada by R. Douglas Francis
A Heart at Leisure From Itself by Margaret Prang
Gay Male Pornography: An Issue of Sex Discrimination by Christopher N. Kendall
Women and the White Man's God by Myra Rutherdale
Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia by Cole Harris
Preserving What is Valued: Museums, Conservation and First Nations by Miriam Clavir
Couture and Commerce: The Transatlantic Fashion Trade in the 1950s by Alexandra Palmer
On the Art of Being Canadian by Sherrill Grace
Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada by Stephen J. Pyne
Myth and Memory: Stories of Indigenous-European Contact by John Sutton Lutz
National Visions, National Blindness by Leslie Dawn
Cinematic Howling by Hoi F. Cheu
The Other Quiet Revolution by José E. Igartua
Hunting for Empire by Greg Gillespie
Voices Rising: Asian Canadian Cultural Activism by Xiaoping Li
The Heiress vs The Establishment: Mrs. Campbell’s Campaign for Legal Justice by Constance Backhouse and Nancy L. Backhouse
The Red Man'??s on the Warpath: The Image of the “Indian” and the Second World War by R. Scott Sheffield
Brute Souls, Happy Beasts, and Evolution: The Historical Status of Animals by Rod Preece
States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century by Tina Loo
Gender and Change in Hong Kong: Globalization, Postcolonialism, and Chinese Patriarchy by Eliza W.Y. Lee
Canada and the End of Empire by Phillip Buckner
Good Intentions Gone Awry: Emma Crosby and the Methodist Mission on the Northwest Coast by Jan Hare and Jean Barman
This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment by Melody Hessing, Catriona Sandilands and Rebecca Raglon
Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past by Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale
Clio's Warriors: Canadian Historians and the Writing of the World Wars by Tim Cook
Selling British Columbia: Tourism and Consumer Culture, 1890-1970 by Michael Dawson
Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, & Social Imagination by Julie Cruikshank
Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr by Gerta Moray
Gay Male Pornography by Stephen Guy-Bray and Christopher N. Kendall
Holding the Line: Borders in a Global World by Heather N. Nicol and Ian Townsend-Gault
Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada by Louise Chappell
Masculinities without Men? Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions by Jean Bobby Noble
The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man’s Province, 1914-1941 by Patricia E. Roy
When Coal Was King: Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island by John R. Hinde
The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design by John Punter
Special Places: The Changing Ecosystems of the Toronto Region by Betty I. Roots, Donald A. Chant and Conrad E. Heidenreich
Growth and Governance of Canadian Universities: An Insider’s View by Howard C. Clark
A Voyage to the North West Side of America: The Journals of James Colnett, 1786–89 by Robert M. Galois
Hollywood North: The Feature Film Industry in British Columbia by Mike Gasher
A White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants 1858-1914 by Patricia E. Roy
First Person Plural by Ron Paulson, Daniel David Moses, Daniel Jalowica and Judith Fitzgerald
The Social Science of Stories by Julie Cruikshank
A History of Domestic Space: Privacy and the Canadian Home by Peter Ward
Women Filmmakers: Refocusing by Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis and Valerie Raoul
The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community by Elizabeth Furniss
The Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30 by Morag Maclachlan
Since the Time of the Transformers by Alan D. McMillan
Un/Covering the North: News, Media, and Aboriginal People by Valerie Alia
Islands of Truth: The Imperial Fashioning of Vancouver Island by Daniel W. Clayton
The Resettlement of British Columbia by Cole Harris
Privileging the Past: Reconstructing History in Northwest Coast Art by Judith Ostrowitz
Gamblers and Dreamers: Women, Men, and Community in the Klondike by Charlene Porsild
The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art by Allan J. Rayan
Talk and Log: Wilderness Politics in British Columbia, 1965-96 by Jeremy Wilson
The Triumph of Citizenship by Patricia E. Roy
A Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia by Frank Leonard
Making Vancouver: Class, Status, and Social Boundaries, 1863-1913 by Robert A. J. McDonald
The Mountain Is Moving: Japanese Women's Lives by Patricia Morley
The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry by Kathleen Scherf
This Blessed Wilderness: Archibald McDonald's Letters from the Columbia, 1822-44 by Jean Murray Cole
Borderlands: How we talk about Canada by W. H. New
Paul Kane's Great Nor-West by Sheila Urbanek and Diane Eaton
Haida Monumental Art [:] Villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands by George F. MacDonald, Bill Reid and Richard J. Huyda
Kwakiutl String Figures by Julia P. Averkieva and Mark A. Sherman
Bitter Feast: Amerindians and Europeans in Northeastern North America, 1600-64 by Denys Delâge and Jane Brierley
Braiding Histories by Susan D. Dion
Citizens Plus: Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State by Alan C. Cairns
Walking in Indian Moccasins: The Native Policies of Tommy Douglas and the CCF by F. Laurie Barron
Tammarniit (Mistakes): Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Arctic, 1939-63 by Frank James Tester and Peter Kulchyski
Ancient People of the Arctic by Robert McGhee
Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney, 1862-65 by Allan Pritchard
Ships and Memories: Merchant Seamen in Canada's Age of Steam by Eric W. Sager
Sam Selvon's Dialectical Style and Fictional Strategy by Clement H. Wyke
Tammarniit (Mistakes): Inuit Relocation in the Eastern Artic, 1939-64 by Peter Kulchyski and Dale Blake
Women and the White Man's God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field by Myra Rutherdale and Margaret Prang
Thomas Crosby and the Tsimshian: Small Shoes for Feet Too Large by Clarence R. Bolt
Our Chiefs and Elders by David Neel
Modern Women Modernizing Men: The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69 by Ruth Compton Brouwer
Telling Tales: Essays in Western Women's History by Catherine A. Cavanaugh and Randi R. Warne
The Chinese in Vancouver 1945-80 by Ng Wing Chung
Indigenous Storywork: Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit by Jo-ann Archibald / Q'um Q'um Xiiem
Renegotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts by William D. Coleman and Diana Brydon
In Celebration of Our Survival: The First Nations of British Columbia by Doreen Jansen and Cheryl Brooks
Hobnobbing with a Countess and Other Okanagan Adventures: The Diaries of Alice Barrett Parke, 1891-1900 by Jo Fraser Jones
The Northwest Coast: British Navigation, Trade, and Discoveries to 1812 by Barry M. Gough
Critical Approaches to the Fiction of Margaret Laurence by Colin Nicholson
Dear Nan: Letters of Emily Carr, Nan Cheney and Humphry Toms
Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition by John Hayman and Charles Lillard
The Light of Imagination by Neil Besner
Turn Up the Contrast: CBC Television Drama Since 1952 by Mary Jane Miller
The Journals of George M. Dawson: British Columbia, 1875-8 by Douglas Cole and Bradley Lockner
The Letters of Malcolm Lowry and Gerald Noxon 1940-1952 by Paul G. Tiessen
Canadian Travellers in Europe 1851-1900 by Eva-Marie Kröller
The Great War of Words: British, American And Canadian Propaganda And Fiction, 1914-1933 by Peter Buitenhuis
Ethel Wilson: Stories, Essays, Letters by David Stouck
A Narrow Vision: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Administration of Indian Affairs by E. Brian Titley
Stef: A Biography of Vilhjalmur Stefansson by William R. Hunt
Varieties of Exiles: the Canadian Experience by Hallvard Dahlie
Vancouver Short Stories by Carole Gerson
Will to Power: The Missionary Career of Father Morice by David Mulhall
Robertson Davies, Playwright by Susan Stone-Blackburn
Letters from Windermere, 1912-1914 by Elizabeth Phillips and R. Cole Harris
A Companion to "Under the Volcano" by Chris J. Ackerley and Lawrence J. Clipper
Second Stage: The Alternative Theatre Movement in Canada by Renate Usmiani
As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows by Ian A. L. Getty and Antoine S. Lussier
Fur Trade and Exploration: Opening the Far Northwest 1821-1852 by Theodore J. Karamanski
Margaret Atwood: Language, Text and System by Sherrill Grace and Lorraine Weir
The Voyage that Never Ends by Sherrill Grace
A Flannel Shirt and Liberty, British Emigrant Women in the Canadian West, 1880-1914 by Susan Jackel
The RCN in Retrospect, 1910-1968 by James A. Boutilier
The Boundary Hunters: Surveying the 141st Meridian and the Alaska Panhandle by Lewis Green
Russia in Pacific Waters: 1715-1825 by Glynn Barratt
Overland from Canada to British Columbia
Clifford Sifton. Volume I: The Young Napoleon, 1861-1900 by D. J. Hall
Land of a Thousand Sorrows by W. H. New and F. Murray Greenwood
Micmacs and Colonists: Indian-White Relations in the Maritimes by L. F. S. Upton
Early Indian Village Churches by John Veillette and Gary White
A Political Art: Essays and Images in Honour of George Woodcock by W. H. New
Alan Crawley and Contemporary Verse by Joan McCullagh
Visitors Who Never Left: The Origin of the People of Damelahamid by Kenneth B. Harris and Frances M. P. Robinson
Towards a View of Canadian Letters: Selected Critical Essays 1928-1971 by A. J. M. Smith
Vertical Man/Horizontal World: Man and Landscape in Canadian Prairie Fiction by Laurence (Laurie) Ricou
Writers of the Prairies by Donald Stephens
The Social Criticism of Stephen Leacock by Alan Bowker
Dramatists in Canada by W. H. New
Everday Magic: Child Language in Canadian Literature by Laurence (Laurie) Ricou
Malcolm Lowry: The Man and his Work by George Woodcock
Wyndham Lewis in Canada
First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship by Sophie McCall
Ghost Dancing with Colonialism: Decolonization and Indigenous Rights at the Supreme Court of Canada by Grace Li Xiu Woo
Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community by Jeremy Webber, Rebecca Johnson and Hester Lessard
Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Canada and the World by Kathryn Walker and Will Kymlicka
The Technological Imperative in Canada: An Intellectual History by R. Douglas Francis
Creative Subversions: Whiteness, Indigeneity, and the National Imaginary by Margot Francis
Oral History on Trial: Recognizing Aboriginal Narratives in the Courts by Bruce Granville Miller
The Strength of Women: Âhkamêyimowak by Priscilla Settee
Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Indigeneity by Pamela D. Palmater
A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland During the First World War by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw
Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada by Andrew Baldwin, Aud Kobayashi and Laura Cameron