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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bantjes, Rod
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
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.