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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bantjes, Rod
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2005.
Series:CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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
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  • U
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