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Not Just a Man’s War

Chinese Women’s Memories of the War of Resistance against Japan, 1931–45

UBC Press

Not Just a Man’s War uncovers the extraordinary stories of ordinary Chinese women during the horrific fourteen-year War of Resistance against Japan, from 1931 to 1945.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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After Redress

Japanese Canadian and Indigenous Struggles for Justice

UBC Press

After Redress is an innovative and critical examination of continuing calls for justice in the wake of state redress and reconciliation agreements.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Chiang Kai-shek's Critical Years, 1935–50

Edited by Emily M. Hill
UBC Press

Chiang Kai-shek’s Critical Years analyzes an enigmatic figure at the peak of his influence, revealing an improvisational approach to political problems that brought remarkable successes alongside ultimate defeat.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Shifting Gears

Canadian Autoworkers and the Changing Landscape of Labour Politics

UBC Press

Shifting Gears tells the story of how Canada’s largest private-sector union shifted its political strategy from an emphasis on transformative activism to transactional partnerships.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Sufism in Canada

Weaving Islamic Practice and Contemporary Spirituality

UBC Press

Sufism in Canada considers how Sufism informs Islam and popular spirituality, opening new avenues of understanding about religiosity and Muslim identities in this country.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Tender Labour

Migrant Care Work, Filipina/o Young People, and Family Life across Borders

UBC Press

Tender Labour investigates the paid and unpaid labour that young migrants from the Philippines engage in to hold their families together and build a better life.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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The Civil Sphere in Canada

UBC Press

The Civil Sphere in Canada shows why a socially just, inclusive society hinges on a robust and dynamic civil sphere.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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The Rise of Tzu Chi

The Making of a Global Buddhist Movement

UBC Press

The Rise of Tzu Chi reveals a dynamic Asian religious movement that draws its global success from its capacity to incorporate diversity.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Times of Transformation

The 1921 Canadian General Election

UBC Press

Uniquely focused on Canada’s 1921 federal election, Times of Transformation recounts the many firsts that made this a watershed event and situates these within the global zeitgeist of post–Great War disillusionment and hope.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Artificial Democracy

The Impact of Big Data on Politics, Policy, and Polity

UBC Press

Artificial Democracy examines the multiple ways in which big data, analytics, and AI are transforming contemporary democracies.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Trading on Art

Cultural Diplomacy and Free Trade in North America

UBC Press

Trading on Art is an insightful, innovative analysis of the role of art in shaping our understanding of North American integration and identity.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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The Forgotten Realities of Men

Critical Reflections on Masculinity in Contemporary Society

UBC Press

This groundbreaking collection offers a rare glimpse into the often-overlooked aspects of men’s lives, set against the backdrop of shifting social norms, economic uncertainty, and the political upheaval of today’s world.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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The Scramble for the Teenage Dollar

Creating the Youth Market in Mid-Century Canada

UBC Press

The Scramble for the Teenage Dollar explores how mid-century marketers and advertisers created the concept of the teenager as model consumer, an idea that has driven our culture ever since.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Transforming the Prairies

Agricultural Rehabilitation and Modern Canada

UBC Press

Transforming the Prairies critically reassesses Canada’s Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in light of its involvement in ecological changes and its role in consolidating colonialism and racism.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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A Cold Colonialism

Modern Exploration and the Canadian North

UBC Press

A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert control over northern peoples and their lands.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Ancillary Police Powers in Canada

A Critical Reassessment

UBC Press

Ancillary Police Powers in Canada investigates the scope of police powers under Canadian common law, and the implications for our rights, freedoms, and individual liberty.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St Lawrence

UBC Press

Environmental Governance in the Gulf of St. Lawrence provides guidance for enhancing the management of a vast and complex marine system.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out

Fighting Economic Ruin in a Canadian Coalfield Community

UBC Press

The Lights on the Tipple Are Going Out documents the tumultuous struggle of one coal-mining region to stave off economic ruin in the face of changing times and technologies.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Debt of a Nation

Land and the Financing of the Canadian Settler State, 1820–73

UBC Press

The Debt of a Nation reveals not only the intimate relationship between public debt financing and colonization but also its continuing implications for contemporary Canadian politics.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage, New Edition

A Canadian Obligation

UBC Press, Purich Books

Against the backdrop of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage examines past and emerging issues in the recognition of Indigenous inherent human rights and knowledge within a Canadian legal context.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Blue Skies over Wuhan

The Evolution of Environmental Protection Policy in Hubei, 1970s–80s

UBC Press

Blue Skies over Wuhan traces the development of environmental protection policy in China through a case study of Hubei Province, where an environmental agenda dominated by economic growth priorities gradually gave way to more mature, state-led governance.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Feathered Entanglements

Human-Bird Relations in the Anthropocene

UBC Press

Feathered Entanglements investigates human-bird relations across the Indo-Pacific and shows what birds can teach us about how to live with other species in the Anthropocene.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Working Class and Politics in Canada

UBC Press

In its detailed assessment, The Working Class and Politics in Canada convincingly demonstrates that class differences have enduring relevance to contemporary political outcomes and behaviour.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Pentecostal Preacher Woman

The Faith and Feminism of Bernice Gerard

UBC Press

Evangelical pastor, talk-show host, politician, musician. Pentecostal Preacher Woman explores the complex life of Bernice Gerard, one of the most influential spiritual figures of twentieth-century British Columbia.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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A Tight Grip

State Power and Control in Modern China

UBC Press

A Tight Grip uncovers the strategies of political terror and ideological control that underpin regime survival in modern-day China.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Handing Over the Keys

Indigenous Peoples and Carceral Injustice

UBC Press

Handing over the Keys explores the intergenerational impacts of carceral injustice on Indigenous peoples and suggests policy approaches that will disrupt the harm.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Greyscale Legality

The Diverse Landscape of Intellectual Property Law Enforcement in China

UBC Press

Greyscale Legality provides a sharp and systematic analysis of how legal texts and industry contexts interact to shape the enforcement of intellectual property law across Chinese industries.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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The Political Party in Canada

UBC Press

The Political Party in Canada provides a comprehensive exploration of contemporary Canadian political party composition and organization and draws on rich original data to consider where power lies and how it is exercised.

  • Copyright year: 2022
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Deciding on Death

Rodriguez, Carter, and Medically Assisted Dying in Canada

UBC Press

Deciding on Death is a comprehensive analysis of the ethical debate, political controversy, and judicial and legislative developments culminating in the legalization of medically assisted dying in Canada.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Our Voices Must Be Heard

Women and the Vote in Ontario

UBC Press

Our Voices Must Be Heard examines the ideals and failings of Ontario’s suffrage history, its daring supporters and thunderous enemies, and its blind spots on matters of race and class.

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Renegotiating the Bargain

The Formation of Power-Sharing Arrangements within Canadian Political Parties

UBC Press

Renegotiating the Bargain explores and explains a major shift in how power is shared within Canadian political parties to reveal the inner workings of party organization.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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The New Politics of Western Canada

Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures

UBC Press

The New Politics of Western Canada examines the identity of “the West,” its contested political ideologies, and current economic and policy concerns to anticipate the challenges that lie ahead.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Watching the Bear

Canadian Intelligence Assessments of the Soviet Threat to North America, 1946–1964

UBC Press

Watching the Bear draws on recently declassified documents to offer a wholly new perspective on Canada’s policies for the defence of North America in the decades following the Second World War.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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What Could a University Be?

Revolutionary Ideas for the Future

UBC Press, On Campus

What Could a University Be? identifies new ideas that can help refocus the university on educating its students and having a greater positive impact in society.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Once upon This Land

Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories It Tells

UBC Press, Purich Books

Once upon This Land is a much-needed overview of archaeology in British Columbia that introduces readers to the fascinating evidence of human activities in this region from the last ice age up to the present day.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Chrétien and the World

Canadian Foreign Policy from 1993 to 2003

UBC Press

Chrétien and the World, the first book-length study of the former prime minister’s foreign policy, reveals a far more ambitious, coherent engagement in international affairs than has been understood to date.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance

Tar Sands, Social Movements, and the Politics of Energy Infrastructure

UBC Press

Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance reveals how and why social movements have frustrated major pipeline development in North America.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Planting Thistles

Scottish Islander Colonization in Late Victorian Canada

UBC Press

Planting Thistles explores how state-sponsored settlement of Scottish Islanders in Western Canada at the height of Victorian imperialism brought core conceptions of race, class, gender, and modernity itself into question.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Unceded

Understanding British Columbia’s Colonial Past and Why It Matters Now

UBC Press, Purich Books

Unceded reveals the BC government’s history of injustice toward First Nations, providing the context for Indigenous land claims and the province’s ongoing reconciliation efforts.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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Autism and the Culture of Therapy

The Politics and Practice of Applied Behaviour Analysis

UBC Press

Autism and the Culture of Therapy investigates the larger systems that regulate applied behaviour therapies, their negotiation and application by practitioners and parents, and how they have redefined what autism means.

  • Copyright year: 2025
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