Albion's Seed : Four British Folkways in America (9780195069051)

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 972 pages
• Dimensions 155 x 234 x 48mm | 1,373g
• Publication date 14 Mar 1991
• Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note 80 line drawings
• ISBN10 0195069056
• ISBN13 9780195069051
• Bestsellers rank 218,268

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