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''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 that moved from distinct regions of England (Albion) to the United States. The argument is that the culture of each of the groups persisted and that these cultures provide the basis for the modern United States.〔David Hackett Fischer, ''Albion's Seed'' (Oxford University Press, 1989), p. 6〕 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"〔Hackett Fischer, David. ''Albion's Seed'' Oxford University Press, 1989.〕 Fischer describes Albion's Seed as a modified Teutonic germ theory within the framework of the Frontier Thesis and the migration model. ==Four folkways== The four migrations are discussed in the four main chapters of the book: * East Anglia to Massachusetts :''The Exodus of the English Puritans'' (Pilgrims influenced the Northeastern United States' corporate and educational culture)〔Fischer, ''Albion's Seed'', pp. 13–206〕 * The South of England to Virginia :''Distressed Cavaliers and Indentured Servants'' (Gentry influenced the Southern United States' plantation culture)〔Fischer, ''Albion's Seed'' pp. 207–418〕 * North Midlands to the Delaware :''The Friends' Migration'' (Quakers influenced the Middle Atlantic and Midwestern United States' industrial culture)〔Fischer, ''Albion's Seed'', pp. 419–604〕 * Borderlands to the Backcountry :''The Flight from North Britain'' (Scotch-Irish, or border English, influenced the Western United States' ranch culture and the Southern United States' common agrarian culture)〔Fischer, ''Albion's Seed'', pp. 605–782〕 Fischer includes satellite peoples such as Welsh, Scots, Irish, Dutch, French, Germans, Italians and a treatise on Black slaves in South Carolina. Fischer covers voting patterns and dialects of speech in four regions which span from their Atlantic colonial base to the Pacific. Fischer remarks on his own connective feelings between the Chesapeake and Southern England in ''Albion's Seed'', but attempts to flesh that out in ''Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement''—a corollary of his work in this book.〔Fischer, ''Albion's Seed'', p. 246〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albion's Seed」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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