James Murton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4089366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Murton |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Murton |
| SIGNATURE | MURTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nipissing University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Against the Tides
A Bounded Land
Subsistence Production and Commodity Production in the British Imperial Food System
The history of agriculture in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley before the Second World War has mostly been written as a story of the marketing of apples to Britain. Indeed, the valley in the first half of the twentieth century featured the full apparatus of industrial fruit production: grading and inspection systems, mechanical sprayers delivering chemical sprays, expert advice, and an infrastructure of railways, packing houses, storage facilities,…
Subsistence under Capitalism
Creating Order
This essay considers the draining of Sumas Lake, British Columbia, Canada, by the provincial government in the 1920s. I argue that both the B.C. state and local landowners believed in the virtue of the ordered landscape of agrarian ideology. Both supported a quest to order nature that clashed with a disordered and interconnected natural environment, leading to massive cost overruns on the building of drainage works and the creation of farmlands. …
Creating a Modern Countryside
In Creating a Modern Countryside, James Murton disentangles the political shift from nineteenth-century classical liberalism to a more modern twentieth-century statist liberal model. To do this, he examines several land resettlement schemes in British Columbia, arguing that the state manipulated the land to achieve certain social and political ends. Although most of the plans went awry, Murton insists that they say much about the evolving British…
Stephen Bocking - Nature’s Experts
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
La « Normandie du Nouveau Monde »
Cette étude tend à montrer que durant les années 1930 la Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) a créé et disséminé une image du Québec comme société simple, prémoderne et rurale, dans le but d’accroître la clientèle de ses navires de croisière et de ses hôtels. On y examine les documents publicitaires de la compagnie et l’on montre qu’elle faisait aussi appel à d’autres individus pour construire cette image. L’anthropologue et folkloriste Marius Barbeau a…
La « Normandie du Nouveau Monde »
Cette étude tend à montrer que durant les années 1930 la Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) a créé et disséminé une image du Québec comme société simple, prémoderne et rurale, dans le but d’accroître la clientèle de ses navires de croisière et de ses hôtels. On y examine les documents publicitaires de la compagnie et l’on montre qu’elle faisait aussi appel à d’autres individus pour construire cette image. L’anthropologue et folkloriste Marius Barbeau a…
La « Normandie du Nouveau Monde »
Cette étude tend à montrer que durant les années 1930 la Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) a créé et disséminé une image du Québec comme société simple, prémoderne et rurale, dans le but d’accroître la clientèle de ses navires de croisière et de ses hôtels. On y examine les documents publicitaires de la compagnie et l’on montre qu’elle faisait aussi appel à d’autres individus pour construire cette image. L’anthropologue et folkloriste Marius Barbeau a…
Creating a Modern Countryside
In Creating a Modern Countryside, James Murton disentangles the political shift from nineteenth-century classical liberalism to a more modern twentieth-century statist liberal model. To do this, he examines several land resettlement schemes in British Columbia, arguing that the state manipulated the land to achieve certain social and political ends. Although most of the plans went awry, Murton insists that they say much about the evolving British…
Stephen Bocking - Nature’s Experts
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Creating Order
This essay considers the draining of Sumas Lake, British Columbia, Canada, by the provincial government in the 1920s. I argue that both the B.C. state and local landowners believed in the virtue of the ordered landscape of agrarian ideology. Both supported a quest to order nature that clashed with a disordered and interconnected natural environment, leading to massive cost overruns on the building of drainage works and the creation of farmlands. …
Subsistence under Capitalism
A Bounded Land
Subsistence Production and Commodity Production in the British Imperial Food System
The history of agriculture in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley before the Second World War has mostly been written as a story of the marketing of apples to Britain. Indeed, the valley in the first half of the twentieth century featured the full apparatus of industrial fruit production: grading and inspection systems, mechanical sprayers delivering chemical sprays, expert advice, and an infrastructure of railways, packing houses, storage facilities,…
Against the Tides
Canadian Identity and History (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works)