Claiming Land, Claiming Water Mark Cowling The Black Death

The Black Death

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Women and men

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Claiming Land, Claiming Water Mark Cowling The Black DeathExplores how and why people manipulated borders in the early modern Atlantic world Claiming Land, Claiming Water shares what historians and geographers wish readers knew about maps and borders before, during, and after the founding of the United States. The essays collected in this volume model how people can learn to interpret maps as arguments, rather than as historical facts, and to read maps for evidence of people and places that were elided,