| Improved Earth: Prairie Space as Modern Artefact, 1869-1944 Subjects: Landscape -- Social aspects -- Saskatchewan; Rural development -- Social aspects -- Saskatchewan; Land settlement -- Social aspects -- Saskatchewan; Saskatchewan -- Politics and government; Saskatchewan -- Rural conditions; 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. Bantjes Rod : Rod Bantjes is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at St. Francis Xavier University. |