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American Boundaries
Bill Hubbard
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Description for American Boundaries
Hardback. Mapping how each state came to have its shape, and how the nation itself formed within its present borders, this title provides historians, geographers, and general readers alike with the story behind those fifty distinctive jigsaw-puzzle pieces that together form the United States. Num Pages: 384 pages, 317 halftones. BIC Classification: HBJK; JPSL; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1338.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226355917
SKU
V9780226355917
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Ref
99-15
About Bill Hubbard
Bill Hubbard Jr. is the author of two books on architecture, Complicity and Conviction and A Theory for Practice. For twenty years he has taught the introductory design studio for undergraduates in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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