Apple of the Empire: Landscape and Imperial Identity in Turn-of-the-Century British Columbia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
With the dawn of a new century, the British Empire faced the world with a new monarch as the Dominion of Canada braced for one of the largest immigration movements in its brief history. These currents of change also mirrored broader societal transformations marked by dramatic industrial expansion and exploding urban growth. In this period of great transition, many well-to-do Britons found a powerful antidote to their fears and insecurities in the far-away province of British Columbia. Aggressively promoted by private land developers, immigrants found affinity with a radically-altered landscape defined by the agricultural practice of fruit farming. Representing a wealth of finance, culture, and refinement, notions of the land animated and perpetuated the values and identity of the new community. Although these settlers were eager to exclude difference and achieve a “natural” balance with nature, the intertwining of landscape and Empire could not preclude change, nor exorcise its own profound flaws.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".