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Rod Bantjes - Improved Earth: Prairie Space as Modern Artefact, 1869-1944 - 9780802087829 - V9780802087829
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Improved Earth: Prairie Space as Modern Artefact, 1869-1944

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Description for Improved Earth: Prairie Space as Modern Artefact, 1869-1944 hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 280 pages, 9 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBCS; 3JH; 3JJ; RNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.

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 not only embraced, but took an active role in the making of modernity. Indeed, many of the questions that excited the imaginations ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802087829
SKU
V9780802087829
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About Rod Bantjes
Rod Bantjes is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. Francis Xavier University.

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