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The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country

✍ Scribed by Linklater, Andro

Book ID: 107805052
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Weight: 3 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780802718501

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✦ Synopsis

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 , thus, defined not by open spaces but by boundaries. "What Americanized the immigrants was not the frontier experience" Linklater writes, "but the fact that it took place inside the United States frontier." Those same borders had the ability to divide as well as unite, as the great battle over internal boundaries during the...

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