04056nam 2200865 450 991081790420332120231206203720.01-281-99452-997866119945251-4426-7603-510.3138/9781442676039(CKB)2430000000001884(OCoLC)244767474(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218928(SSID)ssj0000299410(PQKBManifestationID)11248042(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299410(PQKBWorkID)10241710(PQKB)11464265(CaBNvSL)thg00600975 (DE-B1597)464556(OCoLC)1013939212(OCoLC)944178060(DE-B1597)9781442676039(Au-PeEL)EBL4671615(CaPaEBR)ebr11257320(CaONFJC)MIL199452(OCoLC)958513826(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104865(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/w1hpc5(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/418647(MiAaPQ)EBC4671615(MiAaPQ)EBC3255023(EXLCZ)99243000000000188420160921h20052005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrImproved earth prairie space as modern artefact, 1869-1944 /Rod BantjesToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2005.©20051 online resource (217 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8020-3705-4 0-8020-8782-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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"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 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 took an active role in transforming their world." "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 debate about the way space and time are imagined."--JacketLandscapesSocial aspectsSaskatchewanRural developmentSaskatchewanLand settlementSocial aspectsSaskatchewanSociology, RuralSaskatchewanRural developmentSociological aspectsSaskatchewanSaskatchewanPolitics and governmentSaskatchewanRural conditionsElectronic books. LandscapesSocial aspectsRural developmentLand settlementSocial aspectsSociology, RuralRural developmentSociological aspects307.72097124Bantjes Rod1594969Preston Susan M(Susan Margaret),1958-1594970University of Guelph.Digital North Media.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817904203321Improved earth3915701UNINA