Albion's Seed : Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History)

Fischer, David Hackett

Oxford University Press Inc（1992/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 984 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780195069051
• DDC分類 973

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1989. This ground-breaking work documents how each successive wave of early emigration contributed to, and continue to affect, ingrained cultural differences between various regions in the United States.

Full Description

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 Britons to the American backcountry--contributed to, and continue to affect, ingrained cultural differences between various regions in the United States.