Improved earth : prairie space as modern artefact, 1869-1944 /

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"Improved Earth is a history of the making of 'abstract spaces of modernity' in the setting of the Canadian prairies, particularly rural Saskatchewan, from 1869 to 1944. Rod Bantjes demonstrates how three interrelated projects - state formation, agrarian class formation, and the trans...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bantjes, Rod
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2005.
Colección:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Temas:
Raum
Landscapes > Social aspects > Saskatchewan.
Rural development > Saskatchewan.
Land settlement > Social aspects > Saskatchewan.
Rural development > Saskatchewan > Sociological aspects.
Paysages > Aspect social > Saskatchewan.
Développement rural > Saskatchewan > Aspect sociologique.
Colonisation intérieure > Aspect social > Saskatchewan.
Développement rural > Saskatchewan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Rural development > Sociological aspects
Land settlement > Social aspects
Landscapes > Social aspects
Politics and government
Rural conditions
Rural development
Prärie
Moderne
Saskatchewan > Politics and government.
Saskatchewan > Rural conditions.
Saskatchewan > Politique et gouvernement.
Saskatchewan > Conditions rurales.
Saskatchewan
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Improved Earth is a history of the making of 'abstract spaces of modernity' in the setting of the Canadian prairies, particularly rural Saskatchewan, from 1869 to 1944. Rod Bantjes demonstrates how three interrelated projects - state formation, agrarian class formation, and the transformation of the environment - were conceived in spatial terms and employed competing visions of spatial possibility." "Bantjes proposes that the prairies be thought of as a site of modernity, and makes a case for viewing prairie farmers as 'modernists' who took an active role in transforming their world." "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 debate about the way space and time are imagined."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781442676039
1442676035
1281994529
9781281994523

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