Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780195069051
ISBN: 0195069056
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 972
Publication Date: March 14, 1989
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Sales Rank: 3622
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
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 the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins.




Rating: - British Folkways and migration
This book looks at the ethnic origins, customs and traditions of America's British immigrants to North America from the early 17th Century to the late 18th Century. The author breaks down this migration in a set of four major immigrations and four different ethnic and social cultures. The four being; 1. East Anglia to Massachusetts: The exodus of the English Puritans, 2. The South of England to Virginia: Cavaliers and Indentured Servants, 3. North Midlands to the Delaware: The Friends Migration, ... Read More

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Rating: - Non-professional appreciation
I'm not an historian nor cultural anthropologist, but I could not put this interesting and even exciting book down. Oh my! And yes, yes, I will endure arthritis in my hands for a few more weeks, need new batteries for the night-light, and have a permanent dent in my stomach where the book rested, but the whole experience was well worth it. Too bad there is not a rating higher than five stars.
Martha Osgood
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a Cultural History)

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Rating: - Indispensable for understanding the origins of the American Civil War
As someone with a keen interest in the American Civil War and its origins, I found Fischer's Albion's Seed to be extremely valuable. Although the period it describes is mostly colonial leading up to the American war for independence from England, the four folkways documented therein clearly delineate the religious, cultural, economic and even environmental forces that lined up to bring about that most seminal event for modern America, the war of 1861-1865.

The origins of slavery and ... Read More

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Rating: - Fantastic Book!!!!
I am a museum director, and this book was recommended to me by one of our docents who is researching her family history. I checked it out from the library, but it was far too thick for me to read in 3 weeks, and it had a huge waiting list so I could not renew it. So I bought my own copy -- and it was well worth it! Admittedly, I am only on the second part of the book (which includes my own ancestry), but I have learned SO MUCH already about the early settlement of America. Part of why it is taking ... Read More

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Rating: - America's Cradle
I have sometimes wondered what I am. I am of course me, but sometimes it seems there is no "we" that quite fits the "me". I am hardly alone in this and there are probably many Americans that feel this way.
Albion's Seed is a grand overview of where America comes from. Where our values and habits were born.
The author traces the history of four intertwining British cultures that he says are the foundation of America. These to put it roughly would be the Yankees, the Phillys, The Southern Gentry, ... Read More

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