How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity

What makes a country? What makes America what it is today? Author Andro Linklater argues that the changing territorial markers and frontiers played an important role in the creation of our country’s personality. His new book is “The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity” (Walker, 2007).