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Typed appraisals of household goods and personal effects done by William L. Hubbard for people mainly living in Franklin County, Massachusetts. The appraisals were mainly done for insurance or probate purposes.
The author recounts his investigation into the covert activities of a corrupt forensic pathologist and a power-hungry criminal district attorney, which resulted in his own trial on fraudulent felony charges and the loss of his career.
This study looks at groups with an interest in a work of architecture - owners, inhabitants, customers, critics and historians, architecture schools - presents a conceptual framework in which those disparate interests are honoured for providing different perspectives on the building.
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 not...