Название:American Boundaries: The Nation, the States, the Rectangular Survey
Автор: Bill Hubbard Jr.
Издательство: Chicago University of Chicago Press Ann Arbor, Michigan ProQuest
Год: 2009
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 468
Для сайта: litgu.ruРазмер: 113 MB
Язык: English
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.
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