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by David Hackett Fischer (Author) "ON A BLUSTERY MARCH MORNING in the year 1630, a great ship was riding restlessly at anchor in the Solent, near the Isle of Wight..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 970 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc; illustrated edition edition (1 Sep 1989)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0195037944
  • ISBN-13: 978-0195037944
  • Product Dimensions: 24.3 x 16.6 x 5.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
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"As one of the most imaginative historians in contemporay America, David Hackett Fischer has produced a work that may put his fellow scholars' teeth on edge....Yet Fischer's latest book, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, will fascinate them as well as the general reading public. Lucid, dramatic, always entertaining, the thick, handsomely illustrated volume may safely be called a modern classic, and comparisons to Tocqueville are inevitable....It inaugurates an ambitious design to reinterpret, rather than merely retell, the whole of American history." --American Heritage
"The finest work of synthesis in early American history in more than fifty years."--Michael Kammen, New York Newsday
"One of the most thought-provoking works of American history to appear in recent years.... What is remarkable is how successful Fischer is in casting colonial America in a new light."--Eric Foner


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Professor Fischer has written a major book, which cannot be ignored. (Jonathan Clark, The Times )

Fischer's is a striking and distinctive vision. (Journal of American Studies )

The author undoubtedly develops his theme with vigour and enthusiasm. ... he has ransacked all sorts of interesting sources ... historians will find much useful material in Albion's Seed"Social History --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on Colonial America, period!, 1 Sep 1999
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This review is from: Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History) (Paperback)
A fantastic analysis and synthesis of why we are irretrievably British. I understand my parents attitudes, speech and culture so much better after reading it. My West VA mother actually speaks like he describes. My clansman descended father speaks, acts--IS just like he describes. It has been indispensible in my family history research. So many of my family`s traits and customs are explained as cultural and not just family quirks. I cannot recommend it highly enough. I will eagerly await further works by Fisher
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best works of U.S. history in years, 9 Dec 1998
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This review is from: Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: A Cultural History) (Paperback)
At a time when so-called "professional" historians are doing mental gymnastics to find "multicultural" and other politically correct interpretations of U.S. history (the Iroquois Confederacy as model for the Federalist Papers, etc. etc.), David Hackett Fischer brings us back to reality by showing just how pervasive has been the influence of the earliest British colonists---far more pervasive, in fact, than most of us had imagined, covering everything from political and legal institutions on the one hand to modes of play and styles of domestic architecture on the other. A simply magisterial work of historical synthesis that every American citizen---of whatever race or ethnicity---should read and ponder.

The first in a projected series on the cultural history of America, this whets one's appetites for the others.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars It tells us who we are, 16 Jun 1999
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This is the most important book on American sociology since DeTocqueville. Identifying four strains of early American culture, it shows how these competing cultures have shaped the United States and continue to define us today. Why did American feminists conclude that President Clinton did indeed rape Juanita Broadrick, but that his behavior was acceptable? It may have less to do with politics and more to do with the fact that in early Virginia society, men were expected to be sexual predators. How can mutli-cultural America avoid fragmentation? See how early Pennsylvania society created institutions which allowed various cultures to flourish under one authority. Covering everything from cuisine to politics, from speech patterns to architecture, Mr. Fischer, America's most important historian, gives us a better understanding of the present and the future.
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