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020 _a9781442676039
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781442676039
035 _a(DE-B1597)464556
035 _a(OCoLC)944178060
040 _aDE-B1597
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050 4 _aHN110.S35
072 7 _aSOC002010
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082 0 4 _a307.72/097124
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBantjes, Rod
_eautore
245 1 0 _aImproved Earth :
_bPrairie Space as Modern Artefact, 1869-1944 /
_cRod Bantjes.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2005]
264 4 _c©2005
300 _a1 online resource (280 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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520 _aImproved 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 not only embraced, but took an active role in the making of modernity. Indeed, many of the questions that excited the imaginations of prairie politicians and reformers are alive today: the ecological and social value of ?localization? in agricultural production; the potentials for ?community? maintained and linked by transportation and communications technologies; and the possibilities of democratic decentralization within large translocal networks.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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aLand settlement
_xSocial aspects
_zSaskatchewan.
650 0 _aLandscapes
_xSocial aspects
_zSaskatchewan.
650 0 _aRural development
_zSaskatchewan
_xSociological aspects.
650 0 _aRural development
_zSaskatchewan.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442676039
856 4 2 _3Cover
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