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UNINA9910780526103321 |
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Bantjes Rod |
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Titolo |
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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Altri autori (Persone) |
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PrestonSusan M <1958-> (Susan Margaret) |
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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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Formato |
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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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 -- T -- U -- W |
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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, |
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