'Taken on the Spot': The Visual Appropriation of New France for the Global British Landscape
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Abstract
Until the arrival of topographic landscape artists with British forces in the 1750s, European representations of North American landscapes usually depended on artists' imaginations, with deliberately schematic and symbolic results. During the British invasion, occupation, and colonization of New France, artists appropriated the conquests visually with topographic renderings of the empire's new landscapes. Post-conquest representations of New France were part of the creation of a global British landscape, with Canada as a distinctive part. Colonial landscapes claiming topographical accuracy became frequent at the same time that Britain extended its imperial interests by conquests and accessions on a global scale - in Canada, the trans-Appalachian West, India, and the Pacific. Evidence from prints, drawings, maps, charts, and fiction show how the sublime aspects of Canada's scenery confirmed the grandeur of the imperial project against New France, while the picturesque landscapes of towns, farms, and shorelines promised an easily governed population readily subject to British improvements. Jusqu'� l'arriv�e des paysagistes topographiques dans les forces britanniques au cours des ann�es 1750, la repr�sentation du paysage nord-am�ricain par les Europ�ens reposait le plus souvent sur la capacit� imaginative de l'artiste, ce qui donnait des r�sultats d�lib�r�ment sch�matiques et symboliques. Durant l'invasion, l'occupation et la colonisation de la Nouvelle-France par les Britanniques, les artistes proc�d�rent � une appropriation visuelle des territoires conquis en peignant la topographie des nouveaux paysages de l'empire. Les repr�sentations de la Nouvelle-France d'apr�s la conqu�te faisaient partie de la cr�ation d'un paysage britannique global, dont le Canada constituait une partie caract�ristique. Les paysages coloniaux se r�clamant d'une topographie exacte firent de fr�quentes apparitions au m�me moment o� la Grande-Bretagne �tendait son empire gr�ce � des conqu�tes et des rattachements men�s � l'�chelle mondiale - Canada, Ouest transappalachien, Inde et Pacifique. Les gravures, dessins, cartes terrestres et marines ainsi que les ouvrages de fiction d�montrent comment le c�t� sublime du paysage canadien venait confirmer la grandeur du projet imp�rial face � la Nouvelle-France, alors que les vues pittoresques des villages, des fermes et des c�tes offraient la promesse d'une population facile � gouverner, pr�te � accepter les am�nagements propos�s par les Britanniques.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".