Book Description
With miscellaneous geographic information concerning areas, altitudes, and geographic centers.
Author : Franklin K. Van Zandt
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 1966
Category : United States
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With miscellaneous geographic information concerning areas, altitudes, and geographic centers.
Author : James T. Sparrow
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 022627778X
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 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. Alvarez, Elisabeth Clemens, Richard John, Robert Lieberman, Omar McRoberts, Gautham Rao, Gabriel Rosenberg, Jason Scott Smith, Tracy Steffes, and the editors."
Author : Bill Hubbard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226355934
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.
Author : Henry Gannett
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,32 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Boundaries, State
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Author : Henry Gannett
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Boundaries, State
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Author : Henry Gannett
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Boundaries, State
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Author : Gary Alden Smith
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1476604347
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.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Geology
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Author : U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780160831188
"Learn About the United States" is intended to help permanent residents gain a deeper understanding of U.S. history and government as they prepare to become citizens. The product presents 96 short lessons, based on the sample questions from which the civics portion of the naturalization test is drawn. An audio CD that allows students to listen to the questions, answers, and civics lessons read aloud is also included. For immigrants preparing to naturalize, the chance to learn more about the history and government of the United States will make their journey toward citizenship a more meaningful one.
Author : Allen Buchanan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 2003-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521525756
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.