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Albion's seed
four British folkways in America
By Fischer, David Hackett
- ISBN
- 978-0-19503-794-4
- Publisher
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 1989
This cultural history explains the European settlement of the United States as voluntary migrations from four English cultural centers. Families of zealous, literate Puritan yeomen and artisans from urbanized East Anglia established a religious community in Massachusetts (1629-40); royalist cavaliers headed by Sir William Berkeley and young, male indentured servants from the south and west of England built a highly stratified agrarian way of life in Virginia (1640-70); egalitarian Quakers of ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
