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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.
9) The Americas
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The Americas provides an original and far-ranging interpretation of issues relating to territory, boundaries and societies in the American continent. The articles examine issues such as: the border crossing between Mexico and the United States, transborder pollution between California and Baja California, the Ecuador-Peru dispute, and the Argentine-Chile frontier.
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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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The proposal to divide Texas into five states, as provided in the Constituion, may not prove popular for "professional Texans."
But native Texan Dr. Donald W. Whisenhunt, a Texas historian and author and editor of numerous Texa books, provides solidevidence to support his contention that the time has come to turn Texas into five states.
Dr Whisen hunt suggests the question is not "why" but "why not?"
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