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
Autor principal: Bantjes, Rod
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Raum
Moderne
Prärie
Rural development.
Rural conditions.
Politics and government
Landscapes > Social aspects.
Land settlement > Social aspects.
Rural development > Sociological aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Rural.
Developpement rural > Saskatchewan.
Colonisation interieure > Aspect social > Saskatchewan.
Developpement rural > Saskatchewan > Aspect sociologique.
Paysages > Aspect social > Saskatchewan.
Rural development > Saskatchewan > Sociological aspects.
Land settlement > Social aspects > Saskatchewan.
Rural development > Saskatchewan.
Landscapes > Social aspects > Saskatchewan.
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan.
Saskatchewan > Conditions rurales.
Saskatchewan > Politique et gouvernement.
Saskatchewan > Politics and government.
Saskatchewan > Rural conditions.
Electronic books.
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 (280 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781442676039

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