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American boundaries [[electronic resource] ] : the nation, the states, the rectangular survey / / Bill Hubbard, Jr



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Autore: Hubbard Bill <1947-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: American boundaries [[electronic resource] ] : the nation, the states, the rectangular survey / / Bill Hubbard, Jr Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (468 p.)
Disciplina: 320.12
Soggetto topico: Surveying - Public lands - United States - History
Surveying - Public lands - West (U.S.) - History
U.S. states - History
Soggetto geografico: United States Boundaries History
United States Territorial expansion
West (U.S.) Boundaries History
West (U.S.) Geography
Soggetto non controllato: geography, united states, american west, frontier, borders, boundaries, history, politics, nonfiction, panhandle, texas, oklahoma, colonies, settlement, ohio, surveyors, farmland, heartland, agriculture, homesteading, grid system, public lands, surveying, territory, land use, development, expansion, exploration, manifest destiny, montana, national domain
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-440) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Dedication. To the Surveying Profession -- Contents -- Introduction: Boundaries in the United States as the Manifest Division of the Nation's Lands -- Part 1. Assembling a National Domain -- Part 2. Apportioning the Domain into States -- Part 3. Apportioning the States into Rectangular Parcels -- Epilogue: Other Ways to Apportion a Public Domain -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 benef
Titolo autorizzato: American boundaries  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786612005046
1-282-00504-9
0-226-35593-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782970103321
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