Jim Clifford challenges ideas of periodization in global history and Great Acceleration frameworks. This is the 8th post in a series on using the Great Acceleration as a framework and for reconnaissance in Canadian environmental history. This series is cross-posted with @nichecanada.bsky.social
When did the Great Acceleration start? Saskatchewan might hold the answerJim Clifford When did the Great Acceleration start? Saskatchewan might hold the answer. Between the 1890s and the 1930s, the settler population exploded, and these newcomers broke 20 million acres …activehistory.ca