Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history)
by David Hackett Fischer
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The United States of Diversity Commentary ~ The received wisdom about multicultural America goes something like this “At the time of the Founding America’s free population was not only white but almost entirely British and the nation’s culture was based on their common heritage
Colonial history of the United States Wikipedia ~ The colonial history of the United States covers the history of European colonization of America from the early 16th century until the incorporation of the colonies into the United States of America In the late 16th century England France Spain and the Netherlands launched major colonization programs in America The death rate was very high among those who arrived first and some early
Culture of the United States Wikipedia ~ The culture of the United States of America is primarily of Western culture origin and form but is influenced by a multicultural ethos that includes African Native American Asian Polynesian and Latin American people and their cultures It also has its own social and cultural characteristics such as dialect music arts social habits cuisine and folklore
The Colonial Cycle in History TimePage ~ Book The Americans the Colonial Experience Daniel J Boorstin Book The Journal of John Winthrop 16301649 The John Harvard Library John Winthrop Richard S Dunn Editor Laetitia Yeandle Book The Times Of Their Lives Life Love and Death in Plymouth Colony James Deetz Patricia Scott Deetz Book
Colonial Culture Cuisine ~ What did colonists eat once they began farming Much of early American cuisine was geared toward survival It took time for rye barley oats and wheat brought from Europe to adapt to new growing conditions in America
History of immigration 16201783 » Immigration to the ~ Significance Immigration from Europe and Africa to America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries created the population that existed at the time the United States came into existence The groups that made up this original population contributed greatly to the events and traditions that would shape the nation throughout its history
Irish Protestants and the Creation of the Bible Belt ~ IRISH PROTESTANTS AND THE CREATION OF THE BIBLE BELT BARRY VANN Lincoln Memorial University introduction As political circumstances changed in Plantation Ulster ministers began to desac ralize their country while casting a geotheological view towards America
Introduction to Jack Tales Folkstreams ~ Introduction to Jack Tales Excerpted from Carl Lindahl “Jacks The Name The Tales The American Traditions” in Jack In Two Worlds edited by William Bernard McCarthy Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 1994 pp with permission from Carl Lindahl
Origins of the Welfare State in America Mises Institute ~ 1 Harold Wilensky put it baldly and succinctly Economic growth is the ultimate cause of welfare state development Harold Wilensky The Welfare State and Equality Berkeley University of California Press 1975 p 24 2 Thus Flora and Alber find no correlation between levels of industrialization and social insurance programs of 12 European nations between the 1880s and the 1920s
Maps of the American Nations by JayMan The Unz Review ~ Continuing my ongoing series on the regional differences – genetic regional differences – between the different EuroAmericans in the United States and Canada here I will present a series of maps demonstrating some of the evidence for the existence and significance of these differences beyond the historical circumstances explored by David Hackett Fischer DHF in Albion’s Seed and
