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UNINA9910456280903321 |
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Autore |
Bantjes Rod |
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Improved earth : prairie space as modern artefact, 1869-1944 / / Rod Bantjes |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2005 |
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©2005 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-99452-9 |
9786611994525 |
1-4426-7603-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Landscapes - Social aspects - Saskatchewan |
Rural development - Saskatchewan |
Land settlement - Social aspects - Saskatchewan |
Sociology, Rural - Saskatchewan |
Rural development - Sociological aspects - Saskatchewan |
Electronic books. |
Saskatchewan Politics and government |
Saskatchewan Rural conditions |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Groundwork: The Dominion Survey -- Chapter 3. Modernity in the Countryside: Contested Rural Space -- Chapter 4. Local Governance as Spatial Practice: State Formation -- Chapter 5. Utopics of Resistance: Agrarian Class Formation -- Chapter 6. Conclusion: The Trans-local and Resistance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 transformation of the environment ? were conceived in spatial |
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