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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
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  • P
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  • U
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