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Albion's seed : four British folkways in America

Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
Edition/Format:  Print book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Discusses the transplanting of British folkways to America during four waves of immigration between 1629 and 1775.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: David Hackett Fischer
ISBN: 0195037944 9780195037944 9780195069051 0195069056
OCLC Number: 20012134
Description: xxi, 946 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: Preface: An idea of cultural history --
Introduction: The determinants of a voluntary society --
East Anglia to Massachusetts: the exodus of the English Puritans, 1629-41 --
The south of England to Virginia: distressed cavaliers and indentured servants, 1642-75 --
North Midlands to the Delaware: the Friend's migration, 1675-1725 --
Borderlands to the backcountry: the flight from North Britain, 1717-1775 --
Conclusion: Four British folkways in American history: the origin and persistence of regional cultures in the United States.
Responsibility: by David Hackett Fischer.
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