Albion's Seed
Four British Folkways in America
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. It is 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.While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are Albion's Seed, no matter what their ethnicity may be. The co…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-974369-8
- EAN: 9780199743698
- Produktnummer: 16950739
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 24'632 KB
- Abbildungen: 36 maps, 52 line illus.
Über den Autor
David Hackett Fischer is Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. He is the author of numerous books, including Paul Revere's Ride and Growing Old in America.
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