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Loading... Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in AmericaAlbion's Seed and Moberg's Emmigrant series are two that come to mind.
Douglas
"In the end, only kindness matters." I think Albion's Seed : four British folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer is a good read, one of the "folkways" settled New England, and gives insight as to how New England is different from other parts of the original colonies.
Many, many towns in New England have Town Histories ... ... readable and I would put Washington's Crossing second. But every serious book I have read on American history cites Albion's Seed, which is what drew me to it. I found it extremely rewarding, and also find myself quite frequently drawing from the information it imparted. It doesn't ... ... that Washington's Crossing is worth reading -- it's the only book of his that I've read (though I think I have Albion's Seed in those boxes that got hauled off to storage when I hauled off to let the apartment be renovated). ... Crossing and his The Great Wave (though I seem to be stuck in the later, and haven't yet finished that one...).)
Albion's Seed is much broader in scope, and I don't know what the academic response to his thesis has been.
Paul Revere's Ride is certainly both an interesting ... "Albion's Seed : four British folkways in America" by David H. Fischer shows how how distinctive groups of early settlers made for different cultural morays in different sections of the colonial states, which come down to today. ... Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present.
Another interesting look at the development of life in the United States is "Albion's Seed : four British folkways in America" by David Hackett Fischer. ... Davies #1 of the Cornish Trilogy
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