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Albion's Seed

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]

Author

Unknown artist, "The Cholmondeley Ladies", c.1600–10[1]

American social history

1989

United States

946

to Massachusetts

East Anglia

Impact[edit]

The book has won a number of awards including the American Association of University Presses prize for overall excellence in 1996.[10]

's "fragment thesis", which proposes that the political cultures of the New World countries depends on when, and by whom they were colonized

Louis Hartz

by the University of Virginia

Albion's Seed Grows in the Cumberland Gap

by Scott Alexander in Slate Star Codex

Book Review

New York Times

Joe Klein Explains How the History of Four Centuries Ago Still Shapes American Culture and Politics