About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780195069051ISBN:0195069056
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Description: Very good. (1771)Paperback, Oxford Univ. Press 1989; Small corner crease on back cover, several small pale brownish spots on the outside edges, otherwise like new! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 1991-03-14
ISBN-13:9780195069051ISBN:0195069056
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780195069051ISBN:0195069056
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780195069051ISBN:0195069056
Description: New. 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... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780195069051ISBN:0195069056
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780195069051ISBN:0195069056
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"This is one of those books that I've been reading in order to learn more about my ancestor's lives. This is facinating reading. I've enjoyed every moment, and feel as if I've learned a great deal already. I got about a third of the way through, and would love to continue. Unfortunately, other books have a higher priority right now. So, I'll have to get back to this one later. I look forward to it."
"This book was surprisingly great, but as it's over 900 pages of a discussion of four historic English regional cultures and how they were transplanted to the British colonies in America, I'd bet it's not of interest to everyone...!"
"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 !"
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