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E-book Moving Natures : Mobility and Environment in Canadian History

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In perhaps the most striking passages of The Dominion in 1983, the author writing under the pseudonym Ralph Centennius predicted the use of “light and beautiful rocket cars, which [dart] through the air at the rate of sixty miles in one minute.” Constructed of polished metal, these fifty-seat rocket cars would fly through the sky at heights of up to fifteen hundred feet and land on rails when they reached their destina-tion. Unimpeded by the vagaries of terrain and seasonality, Canadians could journey from Toronto to Winnipeg in thirty minutes and from Winnipeg to the Pacific in forty. In many ways, Centennius’s enthusiasms mirrored those of peo-ple who, like railway theorist T.C. Keefer in the mid-nineteenth cen-tury, promoted the construction of new transportation links as na-tion-building projects. These engineers, promoters, and politicians believed that enhanced mobility and communication could forge a new nation in northern North America and overcome the clear envi-ronmental constraints posed by its topography, climate, and sheer size. The act of movement could allow Canadians to take control over their land, while at the same time, the infrastructure built to facilitate mo-bility would require modification of that land. People would have to shift soil, remove vegetation, and reconstruct waterways to create new roads, canals, and tunnels. These new mobilities in turn would create new perceptions of nature and nation. Echoing Centennius’s imagined future, the chapters in this collection argue that choices concerning mobility—the movement of people, things, and ideas—have shaped Canadians’ perceptions of and material interactions with their country.

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Judul Seri

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971 BRA m

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Canada : University of Calgary Press., 2016

Deskripsi Fisik

355 hlm

Bahasa

English

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9781552388600

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971

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text

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computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

History of Canada

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