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100 1  Linklater, Andro.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n77002331 
245 14 The fabric of America :|bhow our borders and boundaries 
       shaped the country and forged our national identity /
       |cAndro Linklater. 
250    1st U.S. ed. 
264  1 New York :|bWalker & Co. :|bDistributed to the trade by 
       Holtzbrinck Publishers,|c2007. 
300    328 pages :|billustrations, map ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-316) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    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 Pennsylvania and Virginia in the summer 
       of 1784; and he ends standing at the yellow line dividing 
       the United States and Mexico at Tijuana. In between, he 
       chronicles the evolving shape of the nation, physically 
       and psychologically. As Americans pushed westward in the 
       course of the nineteenth century, the borders and 
       boundaries established by surveyors like Ellicott created 
       property, uniting people in a desire for the government 
       and laws that would protect it. Challenging Frederick 
       Jackson Turner's famed frontier thesis, Linklater argues 
       that we are defined not by open spaces but by boundaries.-
       -From publisher description. 
650  0 National characteristics, American.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh85089950 
650  0 Group identity|zUnited States.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh2008105432 
650  7 National characteristics, American.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/1033342 
650  7 Group identity.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/948442
651  7 United States.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204155
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