American Boundaries

American Boundaries
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 469
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780226355931
ISBN-13 : 0226355934
Rating : 4/5 (934 Downloads)

Book Synopsis American Boundaries by : Bill Hubbard

Download or read book American Boundaries written by Bill Hubbard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone who has looked at a map of the United States and wondered how Texas and Oklahoma got their Panhandles, or flown over the American heartland and marveled at the vast grid spreading out in all directions below, American Boundaries will yield a welcome treasure trove of insight. The first book to chart the country’s growth using the boundary as a political and cultural focus, Bill Hubbard’s masterly narrative begins by explaining how the original thirteen colonies organized their borders and decided that unsettled lands should be held in trust for the common benefit of the people. Hubbard goes on to show—with the help of photographs, diagrams, and hundreds of maps—how the notion evolved that unsettled land should be divided into rectangles and sold to individual farmers, and how this rectangular survey spread outward from its origins in Ohio, with surveyors drawing straight lines across the face of the continent. Mapping how each state came to have its current shape, and how the nation itself formed within its present borders, American Boundaries will provide historians, geographers, and general readers alike with the fascinating story behind those fifty distinctive jigsaw-puzzle pieces that together form the United States.


American Boundaries Related Books

American Boundaries
Language: en
Pages: 469
Authors: Bill Hubbard
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

GET EBOOK

For anyone who has looked at a map of the United States and wondered how Texas and Oklahoma got their Panhandles, or flown over the American heartland and marve
Boundaries of the State in US History
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: James T. Sparrow
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-12 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

GET EBOOK

The question of how the American state defines its powernot what it is but what it "does"has become central to a range of historical discourses, from the foundi
The Boundaries of Freedom of Expression & Order in American Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Thomas R. Hensley
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Kent State University Press

GET EBOOK

On Monday, May 4th, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired 61 rounds of bullets into the Kent State University students protesting about the invasion of
Bridges and Boundaries African Americans and American Jews
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Jack Salzman
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: George Braziller Publishers

GET EBOOK

While no single volume can fully explain this issue, Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews provides us with a means to challenge, and perh
Boundaries of Obligation in American Politics
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Cara J. Wong
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-08 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

GET EBOOK

This book shows how ordinary Americans imagine their communities and the extent to which their communities' boundaries determine who they believe should benefit