| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.1

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Book Review

Improved Earth: Prairie Space as Modern Artefact 1869–1944. By Rod Bantjes. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press, 2005. xi + 204 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index.

If Michel Foucault turns you off, you will not get past the first sentence in this book. Postmodern, poststructuralist, Marxist analyses are explicit, front and center throughout Improved Earth. The book is driven by theory. Bantjes uses the Canadian Dominion Land Survey and the rise of the farmers' Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan as a case study for a "Foucaultian history of 'spaces,'" or as Foucault is quoted here, "spaces" and "powers" "(both of these terms in plural)—from the great strategies of geopolitics to the little tactics of the habitat" (p. 3).

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