Creating a Modern Countryside Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia, by James Murton

James Murton is one of Nipissing University's environmental historians, and he teaches the history of food, among other things. His first book, Creating a Modern Countryside: Liberalism and Land Resettlement in British Columbia, treats an early twentieth-century effort by a provincial government to reshape a natural environment into an ideal agricultural landscape.

Creating a Modern Countryside is published by UBC Press.