The fabric of America : how our borders and boundaries shaped the country and forged our national identity / Andro Linklater.

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Linklater, Andro

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 328 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmContent type:

text

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volume

ISBN:

0802715338
9780802715333

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DDC classification:

973 22

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main Library General Circulation	973 L735 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3BPSU00014866-

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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