The Algerian Revolution at 50: Jeff Byrne's year of Research
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Frank Roberts illuminates history
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Artefacts of Encounter: Cross-Cultural Exchange in Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective
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We Belong: Finding History and Defending Home in Rural North Dakota - a presentation by Stephen Bridenstine
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Studying African History and Film
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Tim Brook awarded a Getty Scholar grant for 2013-14
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Upcoming Events

Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Places That Matter plaque presentation at the Nellie Yip Quong House
05/25/2013 - 14:00
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Careers for Historians

Welcome to Careers for Historians. This is a resource for history students to explore career options. It’s for those who are considering pursuing studies in history, for those who already have a history degree (undergraduate or graduate) and are wondering about what career paths exist, and for faculty members to refine how they advise their students.

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The History of China at UBC

A world map from Collected Illustrations of Heaven, Earth, and People (San cai tu hui; 1609) by Wang Qi (source: Asian Library, University of British Columbia)The Department of History offers a complete set of courses on China for undergraduates and provides graduate students with training in fields from the Ming dynasty to the Republic congruent with the expertise of its faculty. Please browse through our site and learn more about our research and teaching programs.

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Do you want to be a History Major, but missed the advising meeting on March 27?

Come to the History Department Office, #1297 Buchanan Tower to obtain the handbook for The Majors’ Programme in History and sign up for one of the remaining available appointments for April advising.

Interested in applying for History Honours?
Look for information here.

Recent Departmental Publications

  • The Contested Sea: Regimes of Maritime Violence in the Pre-Modern Indian Ocean
  • Strangers: Indigenous and Urban Performances in Algonquian London, 1580-1630
    Thrush, C. Anon.2013. Strangers: Indigenous and Urban Performances in Algonquian London, 1580-1630. In Urban Identity and the Atlantic World. Urban Identity and the Atlantic World.
  • Of Leaders and Governance: How the Chinese Dragon Got Its Scales," a review essay on Ezra Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Harvard, 2011)
    Cheek, Timothy. Anon.2012. Of Leaders and Governance: How the Chinese Dragon Got Its Scales," a review essay on Ezra Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Harvard, 2011). Cross-Currents: East-Asian History and Culture Review 2, no. March. Cross-Currents: East-Asian History and Culture Review.
  • Dogs and the making of the American state: voluntary association, state power, and the politics of animal control in New York City, 1850–1920
    Wang, Jessica. Anon.2012. Dogs and the making of the American state: voluntary association, state power, and the politics of animal control in New York City, 1850–1920. Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.) 98. Journal of American history (Bloomington, Ind.): 998-1024.
  • Hesitating before the Judgment of History
    Brook, Timothy. Anon.2012. Hesitating before the Judgment of History. The Journal of Asian Studies 71. The Journal of Asian Studies: 103.
  • Media, sound, & culture in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • L’Escouade de la moralité juvénile de Montréal et la corruption des garçons dans les années 1940
    Myers, Tamara. Anon.2012. L’Escouade de la moralité juvénile de Montréal et la corruption des garçons dans les années 1940. In Une histoire des sexualités au Québec. Une histoire des sexualités au Québec.
  • Re- interpreting Canada’s Past: A Post-Confederation Reader, 4th edition
  • Transformations de la zone torride: Les répertoires de la nature tropicale à l'époque des Lumières
    Safier, Neil. Anon.2011. Transformations de la zone torride: Les répertoires de la nature tropicale à l'époque des Lumières. Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 66, no. 1. Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales.
  • Phantom Past, Indigenous Presence: Native Ghosts in North American Culture and History
  • Other-worldly: making Chinese medicine through transnational frames
    Nappi, Carla. Anon.2011. Other-worldly: making Chinese medicine through transnational frames. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE.
  • Military Occupation and Empire-Building in Cold War Asia: The United States and Korea, 1945-1955
    Lee, Steven. Anon.2011. Military Occupation and Empire-Building in Cold War Asia: The United States and Korea, 1945-1955. In The Cold War in East Asia, 98-121. The Cold War in East Asia. Stanford.
  • The Cultural Spaces of the Soviet Cosmos
    Kojevnikov, A. Anon.2011. The Cultural Spaces of the Soviet Cosmos. In Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration and Soviet Culture. Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration and Soviet Culture. Pittsburg.
  • Overseas Chinese in the People's Republic of China