The Government of Natural Resources: Science, Territory, and State Power in Quebec, 1867–1939 (Nature | History | Society) - Softcover

Castonguay, Stéphane

 
9780774866316: The Government of Natural Resources: Science, Territory, and State Power in Quebec, 1867–1939 (Nature | History | Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0774866314 ISBN 13: 9780774866316
Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

The Government of Natural Resources explores scientific and technical activity in Quebec from Confederation until the eve of the Second World War. Scientific and technical personnel are an often quiet presence within the state, but they play an integral role.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the provincial government created geology, forestry, fishery, and agronomy services. These new services drew from recently established university technical programs to amass a corps of skilled employees to support their mission: exploiting resources and occupying territory. Stéphane Castonguay traces the history of mining, logging, hunting, fishing, and agriculture in Quebec to reveal how territorial and environmental transformations thus became a tool of government.

By helping to define and shape such interventions, scientific activity contributed to state formation and expanded administrative capacity. The lessons that this thoughtful reconceptualization of resource development offers reach well beyond provincial borders.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stéphane Castonguay is a professor of environmental history and Quebec studies at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and former Canada Research Chair in Environmental History (2003–13). He is also the author of Protection des cultures, construction de la nature: L'entomologie économique au Canada, 1884–1959, and co-editor, with Matthew Evenden, of Urban Rivers: Re-making Rivers, Cities, and Space in Europe and North America and, with Michèle Dagenais, of Metropolitan Natures: Environmental Histories of Montreal. Käthe Roth has been a literary translator for more than thirty years.

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Verlag
University of British Columbia Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0774866314
ISBN 13 
9780774866316
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240
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