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Middle East and North Africa brings together a group of influential analysts to examine a region which has experienced great territorial change from colonial times to the present. The articles examine issues such as: the Sudan-Uganda boundary, demarcation lines in contemporary Beirut, the Palestinian state, and legal aspects of the Iraqi sovereignty and boundary disputes with Kuwait.--Publisher description.
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Historian Linklater relates how the borders and boundaries that formed states and a nation inspired the sense of identity that has ever since been central to the American experiment. Linklater opens with America's greatest surveyor, Andrew Ellicott, measuring the contentious boundary between Pennsylvania and Virginia in the summer of 1784; and he ends standing at the yellow line dividing the United States and Mexico at Tijuana. In between, he chronicles...
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Every state has a shape and every line has a story to tell. This is a quiz show about what really divides the states and how those rivalries have shaped the nation and its people. This season, Brian Unger hits the road to uncover the history hidden in our map through man-on-the-street quizzes and head-to-head competitions that reveal the surprising history of places we thought we knew.
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