Albion's Seed

Four British Folkways In America

BY DAVID HACKETT FISCHER

Brief Description:
"This cultural history explains the English settlement of the United States as voluntary migrations from four English cultural centers. [Puritans emigrated from East Anglia to Massachusetts; royalist cavaliers and indentured servants emigrated from the south and west of England to Virginia; Quakers of modest social standing emigrated from the North Midlands to the Delaware Valley; and poor borderland families fled to the American back country.] These four cultures, reflected in regional patterns of language, architecture, literacy, dress, sport, social structure, religious beliefs, and familial ways, persisted in the American settlements." -Library Journal

Oxford University Press 1989 945 PP. Paper

$34.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)