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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America Paperback - 1991 - 1st Edition

by David Hackett Fischer

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. Itis a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins.


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This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

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ON A BLUSTERY MARCH MORNING in the year 1630, a great ship was riding restlessly at anchor in the Solent, near the Isle of Wight.

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  • Title Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
  • Author David Hackett Fischer
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 984
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
  • Date 1991-03-14
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780195069051 / 0195069056
  • Weight 3 lbs (1.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.9 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 4.83 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Social life and customs - To, United States - Civilization - To 1783
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.2

About the author


David Hackett Fischer is Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. He is the author of numerous books, including Paul Revere's Ride and Growing Old in America.
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