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Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Geography, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-59).

Newspapers were and are source of information. As permanent communicative tools, they bear mute witness to the occurrences of past and present. On their page are printed important events, great plans, and inconsequential happenings. And yet, newspapers are much more than mere disseminators of news, for they also offer commercial information, and as such, supply their readers with a veritable directory of neighboring merchants. Through its advertisements, the newspaper makes available at a glance, the location and price of the various goods and services of which the newspaper reader may have need. This is true of present day newspapers, and it is true of past newspapers. These advertisements may expound the advantages of a shop in the town in which the newspaper is based, or it may give the newspaper reader information about a commercial establishment outside of that town. These advertisements offer information about not only the merchant's store, but also about the merchant. That he sent an advertisement to any newspaper, says something about him; but that he sent it to that particular newspaper, says even more. This study aspires to define that "even more". In trying to define that phrase, the author hopes to introduce newspaper advertisements as a source of data for historical geographers. As such, this study is a continuation of several previous investigations carried out on historical newspaper advertisements by other researchers, and a paper presented by the present author. There are various types of studies which can be done using this data as a primary source. Some of these studies will be investigated in great detail in this paper; others will be merely mentioned. It is hoped that through this paper, the validity of this data source will be established, and the various problems or pitfalls will be defined. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

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In establishing the range of an Historical Geography it is often wise, for the sake of clarity, to outline those things which are not within the scope of a particular work as well as its actual aim. It is not the aim of this thesis to present a complete historical geography of Brome Countyr nor is it intended to examine selected aspects of the history of the country, simply placing them in their geographical setting in order to show the influence of environment. Rather,its role is to reconstruct the economie landscape of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries at meaningful points of cross-section and to ·show how that landscape evolved in its many facets from a virgin wilderness to its present condition. Its purpose is furthermore to provide a source from which can be learned how the present-day problems which face Brome County arose and, with this knowledge as background, how these problems might be overcome. [...]

Not for the first time, Marxism is considered to be in a state of 'crisis'. This thesis seeks to 'underlabour' on behalf of a particular version of Marxism, a version articulated with force, coherence and great originality for over two decades within human geography: what David Harvey (1985a: xii), in a paradigmatic formulation, has called 'historicalgeographical materialism'. A research programme, rather than the work of any one individual, historical-geographical materialism has in various ways and at various levels creatively extended the classical Marxist canon in a geographical direction. Yet today it is considered increasingly passe by critics on the Left as well as the Right of human geography, reflecting the wider ennui with Marxism outside the discipline. In particular, it is seen as being too 'modern' - too foundationalist, totalising and authoritative in its cognitive and normative claims - to contribute effectively to a critical human geography for the 1990s. Against this, this thesis seeks to develop an alternative reading of the core claims of this research programme by offering a novel reinterpretation of Marx's mature political-economy. Rewriting Marx's account of what Postone (1996: 1) calls "the fundamental core of capitalism", the thesis puts this reinterpretation of the explanatorydiagnostic basis of Marx's critique to work on three major themes of historicalgeographical materialism: the production of space, the production pf nature and the production of subjectivity. It does so in order to illustrate the explanatory power, thematic reach and theoretical coherence of this reinterpretation, as well as its relevance to the late capitalist world. In closing, the normative or anticipatory-utopian basis of this reinterpreted historical-geographical materialism is considered and its political implications for today thereby scrutinised.

Not for the first time, Marxism is considered to be in a state of 'crisis'. This thesis seeks to 'underlabour' on behalf of a particular version of Marxism, a version articulated with force, coherence and great originality for over two decades within human geography: what David Harvey (1985a: xii), in a paradigmatic formulation, has called 'historicalgeographical materialism'. A research programme, rather than the work of any one individual, historical-geographical materialism has in various ways and at various levels creatively extended the classical Marxist canon in a geographical direction. Yet today it is considered increasingly passe by critics on the Left as well as the Right of human geography, reflecting the wider ennui with Marxism outside the discipline. In particular, it is seen as being too 'modern' - too foundationalist, totalising and authoritative in its cognitive and normative claims - to contribute effectively to a critical human geography for the 1990s. Against this, this thesis seeks to develop an alternative reading of the core claims of this research programme by offering a novel reinterpretation of Marx's mature political-economy. Rewriting Marx's account of what Postone (1996: 1) calls "the fundamental core of capitalism", the thesis puts this reinterpretation of the explanatorydiagnostic basis of Marx's critique to work on three major themes of historicalgeographical materialism: the production of space, the production pf nature and the production of subjectivity. It does so in order to illustrate the explanatory power, thematic reach and theoretical coherence of this reinterpretation, as well as its relevance to the late capitalist world. In closing, the normative or anticipatory-utopian basis of this reinterpreted historical-geographical materialism is considered and its political implications for today thereby scrutinised. / Arts, Faculty of / Geography, Department of / Graduate

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