Eighty percent of Americans have no British ancestors. According to David Hackett Fischer, however, their day-to-day lives are profoundly influenced by folkways ...Show synopsisEighty 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 Britons to the American backcountry-contributed to, and continue to affect, ingrained cultural differences between various regions in the United States.Hide synopsis
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Description:New. This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected...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...
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Massive start to a general cultural history of the US. Key word is folkWAYS, with a division into two dozen KINDS of WAYS brought to American by different waves of British migration. Of interest to all American historians, family historians with Anglo lineage, etc.
This is a scholarly work - a text/reference book. It is in no way light reading. I feel that it is the best, condensed explanation of American regional culture, indeed it gets to the very heart of how we came to be, as anything I have ever read. Anyone deeply interested in the history of the United States should place this wonderful book on their "to read" list. Otherwise, discussions such as the personal differences between Adams and Jefferson, or why the North is different from the South, occur in a vacuum. Fisher also wrote Washington's Crossing, another fine and more narrative history.
I couldn't read this straight through. It addresses everything about each culture/settlement group separately. However, if I compared the parallel sections together, it became much more interesting (for example to compare the Family Ways section between all 4 English cultures that are addressed in the book). No, I didn't read the whole thing, but it was very very interesting to see how much influence English culture had and still has on our culture today.
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.
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