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 First edition | |
| Author | David Hackett Fischer |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Unknown artist, "The Cholmondeley Ladies", c.1600–10[1] |
| Subject | American social history |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication date | 1989 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 946 |
| ISBN | 978-0-19-506905-1 |
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America is a 1989 book by David Hackett Fischer that details the folkways of four groups of people who moved from distinct regions of Great Britain (Albion) to the United States. The argument is that the culture of each of the groups persisted, to provide the basis for the political culture of the modern United States.[2] Fischer explains "the origins and stability of a social system which for two centuries has remained stubbornly democratic in its politics, capitalist in its economy, libertarian in its laws and individualist in its society and pluralistic in its culture."[3]
- ^ ‘The Cholmondeley Ladies’, Unknown artist, Britain, Oil paint on wood, Tate collection, Tate Britain, artwork Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed (Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 6
- ^ Hackett Fischer, David. Albion's Seed Oxford University Press, 1989, 4.