Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Color-illus. black dj with red/yellow lettering. 946 pp. with occasional bw illus. VG-/VG-; very light shelf wear to dj and age toning to dj flaps. Item #155233
ISBN: 0195037944
Volume I in the series, America: A Cultural History. Discusses origins; the transplanting of four groups to America, differing in religion, rank, generation, and place of origin. They also had different English dialects, different traditions of vernacular architecture, different ideas of family and marriage, and different attitudes about gender, marriage, sexuality, child-rearing, worship and magic, work and play, food and dress, education, and much more. An in-depth look at four groups that helped shape American society and culture.
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