Author: Rod Bantjes
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802087829
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
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 projectsstate formation, agrarian class formation, and the transformation of the environmentwere 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.
Improved Earth
Author: Rod Bantjes
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802087829
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
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 projectsstate formation, agrarian class formation, and the transformation of the environmentwere 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.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802087829
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
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 projectsstate formation, agrarian class formation, and the transformation of the environmentwere 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.
An Improved Electrical Resistivity Field System for Shallow Earth Measurements
Author: C. Melvin Lepper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth resistance
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earth resistance
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register
Bulletin
Author: United States. Bureau of Public Roads
Publisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 1318
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 1318
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“An” Improved System of Geography
Author: Francis McNally
Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Sheridan Improved
Author: Stephen Jones
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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London Magazine Enlarged and Improved
Astronomy Improved
Author: Nehemiah Strong
Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The Elements of the Theory of Astronomy ... Second Edition, Revised and Improved
Author: John HYMERS (Mathematician.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
An Epitome of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, with Improved Lunar Tables, the Questions Arranged to the Nautical Almanac for 1852
Author: Janet Taylor
Publisher:
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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