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 modern United States. 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."
I only read the Borderlands to Backcountry section on this pass, but I will be going back to sample the rest of the book. This is dense cultural history, the copious details of material life laid out to make a point. In this case the point being that much of the cultural variety of the british colonies arose from the cultural variety of the british islands.
