| 000 | 02581cam a2200373Ia 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | 006446372 | ||
| 003 | OCoLC | ||
| 005 | 20180722204323.0 | ||
| 008 | 070606s2007 nyuab b 001 0 eng | ||
| 020 | _a0802715338 | ||
| 020 | _a9780802715333 | ||
| 029 | 1 |
_aYDXCP _b2511840 |
|
| 035 | _a(OCoLC)138533044 | ||
| 040 |
_aSFR _cSFR _dYDXCP _dBTCTA _dBAKER _dBUR _dJED _dSUC _dIXA _dZJI _dNFG |
||
| 043 | _an-us--- | ||
| 049 |
_aNFCA _c1 |
||
| 092 |
_a973 _bL756 |
||
| 100 | 1 |
_aLinklater, Andro. _9105860 |
|
| 245 | 1 | 4 |
_aThe fabric of America : _bhow our borders and boundaries shaped the country and forged our national identity / _cAndro Linklater. |
| 250 | _a1st U.S. ed. | ||
| 260 |
_aNew York : _bWalker & Co. : _bDistributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, _c2007. |
||
| 300 |
_a328 p. : _bill., map ; _c25 cm. |
||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [309]-316) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aThe 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 | _aHistorian 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 |
_aGroup identity _zUnited States. _9105861 |
|
| 650 | 0 |
_aNational characteristics, American. _921875 |
|
| 650 | 7 |
_aAmerican national characteristics. _2sears _9105862 |
|
| 651 | 7 |
_aUnited States _xBoundaries. _2sears _9105863 |
|
| 651 | 7 |
_aUnited States _xHistorical geography. _2sears _9102389 |
|
| 942 |
_cBOOK _010 |
||
| 994 |
_aC0 _bNFG |
||
| 998 | _a006446372 | ||
| 999 |
_c56555 _d56555 |
||