Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America: VOLUME I (America: A Cultural History) - Softcover

Fischer, David Hackett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195069056 ISBN 13: 9780195069051

Publisher: OUP USA, 1992

Synopsis

Eighty percent of Americans have no British ancestors. According to David Hackett Fischer, however, their day-to-day lives are profoundly influenced by folkways transplanted from Britain to the New World with the first settlers. Residual, yet persistent, aspects of these 17th Century folkways are indentifiable, Fischer argues, in areas as divers as politics, education, and attitudes towards gender, sexuality, age, and child-raising. Making use of both traditional and revisionist scholarship, this ground-breaking work documents how each successive wave of early emigration-Puritans to the North-East; Royalist aristocrats to the South; the Friends to the Delaware Valley; Irish and North Britons to the American backcountry-contributed to, and continue to affect, ingrained cultural differences between various regions in the United States.

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Review:

Professor Fischer has written a major book, which cannot be ignored. (Jonathan Clark, The Times)

Fischer's is a striking and distinctive vision. (Journal of American Studies)

The author undoubtedly develops his theme with vigour and enthusiasm. ... he has ransacked all sorts of interesting sources ... historians will find much useful material in Albion's Seed"Social History

From the Back Cover:

This book is the first in a series, which will hopefully comprise a cultural history of the United States. It is cultural in an anthropological rather than an aesthetic sense--a history of American folkways as they have changed through time.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0195069056
• ISBN 13: 9780195069051
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 972