McLean Family Canadian Studies Series
Generously endowed by University benefactors Brenda and David McLean, the McLean Family Chair in Canadian Studies is occupied by a distinguished Canadianist for a period of two years who delivers the prestigious McLean Family Lectures in Canadian Studies. These lectures are published by UBC Press in the McLean Family Canadian Studies Series.
The Bomb in the Wilderness
Photography and the Nuclear Era in Canada
The Bomb in the Wilderness is an acutely perceptive analysis of Canada’s nuclear footprint through the medium of photography, revealing how we have represented, interpreted, and remembered nuclear activities since 1945.
Moved by the State
Forced Relocation and Making a Good Life in Postwar Canada
Through five diverse episodes of forced relocation across Canada, Moved by the State offers a new look at the power of the welfare state and the political culture of postwar Canada.
Big Tent Politics
The Liberal Party’s Long Mastery of Canada’s Public Life
How did Canada’s Liberal Party become one of the most successful parties in the democratic world? Will it be able to reinvent itself for the twenty-first century?
On the Art of Being Canadian
Drawing on a wealth of artistic expression, this book explores how the arts and artists have shaped Canadian national identity.
Do Glaciers Listen?
Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters, and Social Imagination
Focusing on these contrasting views of glaciers between Aboriginal peoples and European visitors in northern Canada and Alaska, Julie Cruikshank demonstrates how local knowledge is produced, rather than discovered, through colonial encounters, and how it often conjoins social and biophysical processes.
Globalization and Well-Being
Throughout this concise and elegant book, John Helliwell emphasizes well-being as an explicit focus for research and for public policies.
Making Native Space
Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia
It presents the most comprehensive account available of perhaps the most critical mapping of space ever undertaken in BC – the drawing of the lines that separated the tiny plots of land reserved for Native people from the rest.
Citizens Plus
Aboriginal Peoples and the Canadian State
Alan Cairns unravels the historical record to clarify the current impasse in negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and the state.
Borderlands
How We Talk About Canada
In Borderlands, W.H. New poetically and metaphorically considers the image of 'the border' in Canada and how it affects the way Canadians look at themselves and their society.