Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword: Soldiers' Fields -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Terminology and Units of Measure -- Introduction -- PART 1: A MODERN COUNTRYSIDE -- 1 Liberalism and the Land -- 2 Soldiers, Science, and an Alternative Modernity -- PART 2: WHERE APPLES GROW BEST -- 3 Stump Farms: Soldier Settlement at Merville -- 4 Creating Order at Sumas -- 5 Achieving the Modern Countryside -- PART 3: BACK TO WORK -- 6 Pattullo's New Deal -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.