Improved Earth
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...
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...
