Albion's Seed Four British Folkways in America

Name: Albion's Seed Four British Folkways in America
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ISBN: 9780195069051

ISBN-10: 0195069056

ISBN-13: 9780195069051

Edition: 1989 (Reprint)

Authors: David Hackett Fischer

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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…

Book details

List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/14/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 972
Size: 9.17" wide x 6.14" long x 1.97" tall
Weight: 3.256