LEADER 04124nam 2200793 450 001 9910456280903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-99452-9 010 $a9786611994525 010 $a1-4426-7603-5 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442676039 035 $a(CKB)2430000000001884 035 $a(OCoLC)244767474 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218928 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000299410 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11248042 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299410 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10241710 035 $a(PQKB)11464265 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600975 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255023 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671615 035 $a(DE-B1597)464556 035 $a(OCoLC)1013939212 035 $a(OCoLC)944178060 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442676039 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671615 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11257320 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL199452 035 $a(OCoLC)958513826 035 $a(EXLCZ)992430000000001884 100 $a20160921h20052005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImproved earth $eprairie space as modern artefact, 1869-1944 /$fRod Bantjes 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2005. 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-3705-4 311 $a0-8020-8782-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tChapter 1. Introduction -- $tChapter 2. Groundwork: The Dominion Survey -- $tChapter 3. Modernity in the Countryside: Contested Rural Space -- $tChapter 4. Local Governance as Spatial Practice: State Formation -- $tChapter 5. Utopics of Resistance: Agrarian Class Formation -- $tChapter 6. Conclusion: The Trans-local and Resistance -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $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. 606 $aLandscapes$xSocial aspects$zSaskatchewan 606 $aRural development$zSaskatchewan 606 $aLand settlement$xSocial aspects$zSaskatchewan 606 $aSociology, Rural$zSaskatchewan 606 $aRural development$xSociological aspects$zSaskatchewan 607 $aSaskatchewan$xPolitics and government 607 $aSaskatchewan$xRural conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLandscapes$xSocial aspects 615 0$aRural development 615 0$aLand settlement$xSocial aspects 615 0$aSociology, Rural 615 0$aRural development$xSociological aspects 676 $a307.72097124 700 $aBantjes$b Rod$01053322 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456280903321 996 $aImproved earth$92485169 997 $aUNINA