America: A Cultural History Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Book VOLUM, (Hardcover)

from greginAk

Great book. 900 pages but never boring. filled with insights into the cultures that shaped this country from before the revolution to this day. rare is a book that tells us so much about our country today through the telling of distant history.

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Albion's Seed posits the existence of at least 11 distinct regional cultures in America and focuses on the first and largest 4, these were the founding cultures. They are New England, Virginia and the coastal south, the Mid Atlantic (PA, NJ, part of MD), and the "backcountry" which is basically A...

from PhyllisHarrison

Being descended from two groups of settlers from the British Isles and having researched the lives of a third, I find the differences between the groups at the time of settlement fascinating and the facts and data in the book illuminating. Four different regions of our country, settled by inhabit...

from sumariotter

This book is 899 pages and I read every one of them. Yes, I am highly impressed with myself. But really, it is a testament to how interesting this book is. I had come across a mention of it in one of Malcolm Gladwell's books. If you are at all interested in the cultural history of America, I high...

from thornton37814

This ambitious volume identifies four regional cultures which migrated from the British Isles to America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Fischer examines each culture in depth, particularly noting thing which set each culture apart from others. It's a classic work covering regional d...