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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America - Fischer, David Hackett

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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. 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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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
1991, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195069051

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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
1989, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195037944

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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America

1991, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780195069051

Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America

1989, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780195037944

Books by David Hackett Fischer

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Kevin W

Aug 8, 2013

Great Book. All Americans should read this.

This is a great book. Lots of facts, all fully referenced, and insightful interpretations. This book should be on the curriculum for all American schools as it details the early years of the country in ways that other books never have. From a political and social perspective it very clearly explains why Americans from different parts of the country think and react the way they do. If only they could see the influence that their history exerts on them i think the United States would be a more harmonious and progressive country. Enjoyable reading.

Linda S

Jan 27, 2011

Excellent

Wonderful author and very interesting. This is a marathon, not a sprint but gives an entire new context to view American history.

historygeek612of4783

Aug 12, 2009

Enlightening Framework for American History

Of all the various speculations about what has formed the American character and the "culture wars," David Hackett Fischer's thesis in Albion's Seed should be given primacy. He argues that there were four identifiable groups arriving in the American colonies from Britain in the 17th Century with conflicting values, ideas, and ways of life which have been adopted by immigrants ever since, still shaping the world we know.

The best part about Fischer is that he makes the argument painlessly, letting the accumulation of detail speak for him, such as the way each group looked at time, work, food, and leisure.

As an amateur genealogist, I also found very useful details to explain patterns of settlement of my own ancestors (and found a couple of them in his genealogical tables) and discussions of naming customs to develop clues for earlier generations.

I liked it so well I'm getting a second copy to loan out !

Francesca

Jun 3, 2007

One of the very best

This is the kind of book that has altered and enriched my view of the world. Fortunately, Dr Fischer writes extremely well, and has been served excellently by the typographical layout, which leads one painlessly through an infinity of research. This is his first volume in a projected cultural history of the States, with a thesis that he builds up page by page and paragraph by paragraph. The four main regional sections of our English colonies come to life in their differences, differences rooted in the various regions of Britain from which their colonists emigrated, which he sees still operating in succeeding centuries of conflict and compromise. The book is scholarly without being oppressive, and exciting in its ideas. If there were an extra star, I would click it, but be prepared for its length.

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