Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in AmericaOxford University Press, 1989 - 946 Seiten 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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The Determinants of a Voluntary Society | 3 |
The Exodus of the English Puritans 162941 | 13 |
Distressed Cavaliers and Indentured Servants 164275 | 207 |
The Friends Migration 16751725 | 419 |
The Flight from North Britain 17171775 | 605 |
Four British Folkways in American History The Origin and Persistence of Regional Cultures in the United States | 783 |
Acknowledgments | 899 |
Abbreviations | 903 |
Sources for Maps | 907 |
911 | |
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