The Government of Natural Resources: Science, Territory, and State Power in Quebec, 1867–1939 - Couverture rigide

Castonguay, Stéphane

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0774866306 ISBN 13 : 9780774866309

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2021

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774866306
• ISBN 13: 9780774866309
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
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