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

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 Pe...

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Main Author: Linklater, Andro.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.
Edition:1st U.S. ed.
Subjects and Genres:
National characteristics, American.
Group identity > United States.
United States > Boundaries.
United States > Historical geography.
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Table of Contents:
  • The first frontier
  • The boundaries of power
  • The state as nation
  • The bullying states
  • Capital speculations
  • Mirrors of the Mississippi
  • Evidence of treachery
  • The reach of government
  • American tragedy
  • The values of government
  • The limits of freedom
  • The American frontier
  • Crossing the frontier
  • The end of frontiers?
  • Envoi.

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