UBC Press is proud to publish outstanding scholarly works by some of the world’s preeminent scholars. We congratulate our authors and volume editors who have been recognized with awards and citations.
Parties, Elections, and the Future of Canadian Politics
The first comprehensive account in decades of major party system change in Canada.
, Commended - The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2013
- Copyright year: 2013
Glorify the Empire
Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo
An investigation into the intersection of Japanese imperialist politics and left-wing, avant-garde arts and culture in 1930s and ’40s Manchukuo.
2014, Winner - Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Book Prize
- Copyright year: 2013
Action and Reaction in the World System
The Dynamics of Economic and Political Power
This book provides a multidisciplinary framework to understand the complexities of the post-Soviet international system, a system that is multipolar, ideologically heterogeneous, and highly unstable.
, Commended - The Hill Times List of Top 100 Best Books for 2013
- Copyright year: 2013
Strong, Beautiful and Modern
National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada, 1935-1960
Strong, Beautiful and Modern tells the story of the national fitness campaigns spanning the “British world” beginning in the 1930s.
2012, Shortlisted - Ernest Scott Prize
2012, Winner - The Ian Wards Prize, Archives and Records Association of New Zealand (ARANZ)
- Copyright year: 2013
Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada
Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues
Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada is the first work to focus sustained and serious attention on the wider implications of Aboriginal peoples’ involvement in sport.
2014, Winner - NASSH Book Prize for Collections, North American Society for Sport History
- Copyright year: 2013
Aboriginal Justice and the Charter
Realizing a Culturally Sensitive Interpretation of Legal Rights
This book explores the tension between Aboriginal justice methods and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, while searching for practical ways to implement Aboriginal justice.
2013, Shortlisted - Canadian Law & Society Association Book Prize
2013, Joint winner - K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing
- Copyright year: 2012