State And National Boundaries Of The United States
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State And National Boundaries Of The United States
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Author : Gary Alden Smith
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-06-08
State And National Boundaries Of The United States written by Gary Alden Smith and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-08 with History categories.
With the exception of oceans, boundaries are artificial, man-made divisions of geography that many times make little sense and sometimes no sense at all. For example, why does the northern boundary of Minnesota protrude into Canada? Why does West Virginia have two panhandles? Why do Pennsylvania and Delaware have a common boundary that is a circle segment? Why do the boundaries of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah consist entirely of lines of latitude and longitude? The answers to these questions and many more can be found in this book, which explains why and how state boundaries are placed where they are. It begins with an introduction that provides general information about boundary placement, colonial boundaries, formation of territories, surveying and Supreme Court rulings. The 50 states are divided into ten regions (New England, Mid-Atlantic, Upper South, Lower South, Great Lakes, North Central, South Central, Rocky Mountain, West, and Noncontiguous). The text for each state begins with an overview of that state’s boundaries that becomes more specific as its different boundaries are considered. The appendices include interesting facts about each state, citizen and state nicknames, and dates territories were created and states entered the Union. Richly illustrated with 138 maps.
Boundaries Of The State In Us History
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Author : James T. Sparrow
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-10-12
Boundaries Of The State In Us History written by James T. Sparrow and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-12 with History categories.
The question of how the American state defines its powernot what it is” but what itdoeshas become central to a range of historical discourses, from the founding of the Republic and the role of the educational system, to the functions of agencies and America's place in the world. Here, James Sparrow, William J. Novak, and Stephen Sawyer assemble some definitional work in this area, showing that the state is an integral actor in physical, spatial, and economic exercises of power. They further imply that traditional conceptions of the state cannot grasp the subtleties of power and its articulation. Contributors include C.J. Álvarez, Elisabeth Clemens, Richard John, Robert Lieberman, Omar McRoberts, Gautham Rao, Gabriel Rosenberg, Jason Scott Smith, Tracy Steffes, and the editors.
American Boundaries
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Author : Bill Hubbard
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-11-15
American Boundaries written by Bill Hubbard and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-15 with Science categories.
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.
States Nations And Borders
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Author : Allen Buchanan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-03-31
States Nations And Borders written by Allen Buchanan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-31 with Philosophy categories.
This volume examines comparatively the views and principles of seven prominent ethical traditions on one of the most pressing issues of modern politics - the making and unmaking of state and national boundaries. The traditions represented are Judaism, Christianity, Islam, natural law, Confucianism, liberalism and international law. Each contributor, an expert within one of these traditions, shows how that tradition can handle the five dominant methods of altering state and national boundaries: conquest, settlement, purchase, inheritance and secession. Written by a distinguished group of international specialists this volume is unique in providing both in-depth normative and comparative perspectives on a troubling question that will offer readers real insight into inter-tradition conflict. Those readers will range from upper-level undergraduates to scholars in such fields as philosophy, political science, international relations and comparative religion.
No Dig No Fly No Go
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Author : Mark Monmonier
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-05-15
No Dig No Fly No Go written by Mark Monmonier and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-15 with Science categories.
Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain individuals and industries to the periphery. This restrictive cartography has boomed in recent decades as governments seek regulate activities as diverse as hiking, building a residence, opening a store, locating a chemical plant, or painting your house anything but regulation colors. It is this aspect of mapping—its power to prohibit—that celebrated geographer Mark Monmonier tackles in No Dig, No Fly, No Go. Rooted in ancient Egypt’s need to reestablish property boundaries following the annual retreat of the Nile’s floodwaters, restrictive mapping has been indispensable in settling the American West, claiming slices of Antarctica, protecting fragile ocean fisheries, and keeping sex offenders away from playgrounds. But it has also been used for opprobrium: during one of the darkest moments in American history, cartographic exclusion orders helped send thousands of Japanese Americans to remote detention camps. Tracing the power of prohibitive mapping at multiple levels—from regional to international—and multiple dimensions—from property to cyberspace—Monmonier demonstrates how much boundaries influence our experience—from homeownership and voting to taxation and airline travel. A worthy successor to his critically acclaimed How to Lie with Maps, the book is replete with all of the hallmarks of a Monmonier classic, including the wry observations and witty humor. In the end, Monmonier looks far beyond the lines on the page to observe that mapped boundaries, however persuasive their appearance, are not always as permanent and impermeable as their cartographic lines might suggest. Written for anyone who votes, owns a home, or aspires to be an informed citizen, No Dig, No Fly. No Go will change the way we look at maps forever.
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The Senate Committee On Interior And Insular Affairs
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The Senate Committee On Interior And Insular Affairs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with Legislative hearings categories.
Bridging National Borders In North America
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Author : Benjamin Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-07
Bridging National Borders In North America written by Benjamin Johnson and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-07 with History categories.
Despite a shared interest in using borders to explore the paradoxes of state-making and national histories, historians of the U.S.-Canada border region and those focused on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands have generally worked in isolation from one another. A timely and important addition to borderlands history, Bridging National Borders in North America initiates a conversation between scholars of the continent’s northern and southern borderlands. The historians in this collection examine borderlands events and phenomena from the mid-nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth. Some consider the U.S.-Canada border, others concentrate on the U.S.-Mexico border, and still others take both regions into account. The contributors engage topics such as how mixed-race groups living on the peripheries of national societies dealt with the creation of borders in the nineteenth century, how medical inspections and public-health knowledge came to be used to differentiate among bodies, and how practices designed to channel livestock and prevent cattle smuggling became the model for regulating the movement of narcotics and undocumented people. They explore the ways that U.S. immigration authorities mediated between the desires for unimpeded boundary-crossings for day laborers, tourists, casual visitors, and businessmen, and the restrictions imposed by measures such as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the 1924 Immigration Act. Turning to the realm of culture, they analyze the history of tourist travel to Mexico from the United States and depictions of the borderlands in early-twentieth-century Hollywood movies. The concluding essay suggests that historians have obscured non-national forms of territoriality and community that preceded the creation of national borders and sometimes persisted afterwards. This collection signals new directions for continental dialogue about issues such as state-building, national expansion, territoriality, and migration. Contributors: Dominique Brégent-Heald, Catherine Cocks, Andrea Geiger, Miguel Ángel González Quiroga, Andrew R. Graybill, Michel Hogue, Benjamin H. Johnson, S. Deborah Kang, Carolyn Podruchny, Bethel Saler, Jennifer Seltz, Rachel St. John, Lissa Wadewitz Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
Shore And Sea Boundaries Boundary Problems Associated With The Submerged Lands Cases And The Submerged Lands Acts Including Recent Developments In The International Law Of The Sea
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Author : Aaron Louis Shalowitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Shore And Sea Boundaries Boundary Problems Associated With The Submerged Lands Cases And The Submerged Lands Acts Including Recent Developments In The International Law Of The Sea written by Aaron Louis Shalowitz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Geodesy categories.
Shore And Sea Boundaries With Special Reference To The Interpretation And Use Of Coast And Geodetic Survey Data Boundary Problems Associated With The Submerged Lands Cases And The Submerged Lands Acts Including Recent Developments In The International Law Of The Sea
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Author : Aaron Louis Shalowitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Shore And Sea Boundaries With Special Reference To The Interpretation And Use Of Coast And Geodetic Survey Data Boundary Problems Associated With The Submerged Lands Cases And The Submerged Lands Acts Including Recent Developments In The International Law Of The Sea written by Aaron Louis Shalowitz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Geodesy categories.
Boundaries Of The United States And The Several States
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Author : Franklin K. Van Zandt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Boundaries Of The United States And The Several States written by Franklin K. Van Zandt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with United States categories.