Improved Earth : Prairie Space as Modern Artefact, 1869-1944.
The first systematic treatment of the spatial dimensions of the colonization of the prairie west, Improved Earth is a unique and thorough study certain to provoke new debates about the way space and time are imagined.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2005.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Groundwork: the Dominion Survey
- 3 Modernity in the Countryside: Contested Rural Space
- 4 Local Governance as Spatial Practice: State Formation
- 5 Utopics of Resistance: Agrarian Class Formation
- 6 Conclusion: The Trans-local and Resistance
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- W.