Albion's Seed

Four British Folkways in America

By:

David Hackett Fischer

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Paperback / softback

Series:

America: a Cultural History

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

February 6th, 1992

Author

David Hackett Fischer

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

80 line drawings

Pages

972

Series

America: a Cultural History

Dimensions

155x234x48

ISBN-13

9780195069051

Product ID

3487631

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