The fabric of America : how our borders and boundaries shaped the country and forged our national identity / Andro Linklater.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 328 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- volume
- 0802715338
- 9780802715333
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
- National characteristics, American
- Public lands -- United States -- History
- American national characteristics
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
- Public lands -- United States -- History
- United States -- Geography
- United States -- Territorial expansion
- United States -- Geography
- United States -- Territorial expansion
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-316) and index.
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Examines the influence of the U.S.'s geographical boundaries on the American identity and argues that that identity is defined by boundaries, not open spaces, telling the stories of pioneering surveyors such as Andrew Ellicott and others who shaped U.S. borders and discussing the Civil War and U.S. power overseas.
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