Arc Of The Medicine Line
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Arc Of The Medicine Line
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Author : Anthony
language : en
Publisher: D & M Publishers
Release Date : 2012-03-23
Arc Of The Medicine Line written by Anthony and has been published by D & M Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-23 with History categories.
The border between Canada and the United States- the longest undefended border in the world-was laid out in many stages over more than a century, but the biggest part of the job was the long, (mostly) straight line across the prairies. On September 18, 1872, a full five years after confederation, two large teams of army surveyors-one from each country-met at the Red River on the Manitoba-Minnesota border. They were there to fix, for the first time, the precise location of the 49th Parallel between the swampy shores of the Lake of the Woods-where the border had an awkward, keyhole-shaped notch that was the source of much tension-and the summit of the continental divide in the Rockies. Over the next two years, the members of the International Boundary Commission went about the business of surveying, mapping and placing markers across nearly 900 miles of unforgiving territory. Through the work of its brilliant naturalists, the Commission created the first accurate descriptions of what was still largely terra incognita. In drawing the Medicine Line across the High Plains, the Boundary Commission defined the final shape of a new nation and ended, once and for all, the old American dream of Manifest Destiny.
Arc Of The Medicine Line
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Author : Tony Rees
language : en
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Release Date : 2007
Arc Of The Medicine Line written by Tony Rees and has been published by Douglas & McIntyre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Astronomy categories.
Today the borderland between Canada and the United States is a wide, empty sweep of wheat fields and pasture, measured by a grid of gravel roads that sees little traffic and few people who do not make their lives there. It has been much this way for more than a century now, but there was a moment when the great silence shrouding this place was broken, and that moment changed it forever. Arc of the Medicine Line is a compelling narrative of that moment--the completion of the official border between the United States and Canada in 1874. In late July of 1874, the Sweetgrass Hills sheltered the greatest accumulation of scientists, teamsters, scouts, cooks, and soldiers to be seen in this part of the world before the coming of the railways. The men of the boundary commissions--American, British, and Canadian--established an astronomical station and the last of their supply depots as they prepared to draw the Medicine Line across the final hundred of the nearly nine hundred miles between Manitoba's Lake of the Woods and the Continental Divide. In the brief weeks the surveyors and soldiers spent in Milk River country, they witnessed, and played a singular part in, the beginning of the end for the open West. That hot, dry summer of 1874 marked the outside world's final assault on this last frontier.
A Line Of Blood And Dirt
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Author : Benjamin Hoy
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-02
A Line Of Blood And Dirt written by Benjamin Hoy and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-02 with History categories.
The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-US border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed treaties with one another dividing lands neither country could map, much less control. A century and a half later, Canada and the United States had largely fulfilled those earlier ambitions. Both countries had built nations that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific and had made an expansive international border that restricted movement. The vision that seemed so clear in the minds of diplomats and politicians never behaved as such on the ground. Both countries built their border across Indigenous lands using hunger, violence, and coercion to displace existing communities and to disrupt their ideas of territory and belonging. The border's length undermined each nation's attempts at control. Unable to prevent movement at the border's physical location for over a century, Canada and the United States instead found ways to project fear across international lines They aimed to stop journeys before they even began.
Borderlands In World History 1700 1914
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Author : P. Readman
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-05-20
Borderlands In World History 1700 1914 written by P. Readman and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-20 with History categories.
Covering two hundred years, this groundbreaking book brings together essays on borderlands by leading experts in the modern history of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia to offer the first historical study of borderlands with a global reach.
Looking Beyond Borderlines
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Author : Lee Rodney
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-19
Looking Beyond Borderlines written by Lee Rodney and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-19 with Art categories.
American territorial borders have undergone significant and unparalleled changes in the last decade. They serve as a powerful and emotionally charged locus for American national identity that correlates with the historical idea of the frontier. But the concept of the frontier, so central to American identity throughout modern history, has all but disappeared in contemporary representation while the border has served to uncomfortably fill the void left in the spatial imagination of American culture. This book focuses on the shifting relationship between borders and frontiers in North America, specifically the ways in which they have been imaged and imagined since their formation in the 19th century and how tropes of visuality are central to their production and meaning. Rodney links ongoing discussions in political geography and visual culture in new ways to demonstrate how contemporary American borders exhibit security as a display strategy that is resisted and undermined through a variety of cultural practices.
From Treaties To Reserves
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Author : D.J. Hall
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2015-11-01
From Treaties To Reserves written by D.J. Hall and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Though some believe that the Indian treaties of the 1870s achieved a unity of purpose between the Canadian government and First Nations, in From Treaties to Reserves D.J. Hall asserts that - as a result of profound cultural differences - each side interpreted the negotiations differently, leading to conflict and an acute sense of betrayal when neither group accomplished what the other had asked. Hall explores the original intentions behind the government's policies, illustrates their attempts at cooperation, and clarifies their actions. While the government believed that the Aboriginal peoples of what is now southern and central Alberta desired rapid change, the First Nations, in contrast, believed that the government was committed to supporting the preservation of their culture while they adapted to change. Government policies intended to motivate backfired, leading instead to poverty, starvation, and cultural restriction. Many policies were also culturally insensitive, revealing misconceptions of Aboriginal people as lazy and over-dependent on government rations. Yet the first two decades of reserve life still witnessed most First Nations people participating in reserve economies, many of the first generation of reserve-born children graduated from schools with some improved ability to cope with reserve life, and there was also more positive cooperation between government and First Nations people than is commonly acknowledged. The Indian treaties of the 1870s meant very different things to government officials and First Nations. Rethinking the interaction between the two groups, From Treaties to Reserves elucidates the complexities of this relationship.
International Record Of Medicine And General Practice Clinics
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Author : Edward Swift Dunster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
International Record Of Medicine And General Practice Clinics written by Edward Swift Dunster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with categories.
Embarking On A New Century
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Author : Robert L. Schalock
language : en
Publisher: AAMR
Release Date : 2002
Embarking On A New Century written by Robert L. Schalock and has been published by AAMR this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Intellectual disability categories.
Captures the challenging and controversial era between 1975-2000 that led the field of intellectual disability into an age of community acceptance and inclusion. This title includes chapters that focus themes such as public policy and health care.
A Reference Handbook Of The Medical Sciences
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Author : Albert Henry Buck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
A Reference Handbook Of The Medical Sciences written by Albert Henry Buck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Medicine categories.
Denver Medical Times
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
Denver Medical Times written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Medicine categories.