Albion's Seed ：Four British Folkways in America

基本信息

作者: David Hackett Fischer

Paperback: 972 pages

出版社: Oxford University Press (1991年3月11日)

語種: 英語

ISBN: 9780195069051                              

產品尺寸及重量: 234 x 156 x 47 (mm) | 1360g

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書籍簡介

阿爾比恩（Albion），最早有記錄的不列顛的名字。

本書從民俗的角度切入，解答一個重大問題，即美國自由體系的決定因素到底是什麼。作者認為，1629—1775年英國向北美的四波移民潮深刻地改變了北美大陸，帶來了四種不同的不列顛民俗，並奠定了新世界不同地域文化的基礎。這四種文化在英屬北美紮下根基，最終成為英屬北美自願社會的基石。現今美國人口只有不到20%有英國祖先，但從文化意義上講，大多數美國人都是阿爾比恩的種子，無論他們的祖先是誰。

本書對北美的民俗各元素進行了詳細考證，從宗教、地域、語言、建築、羣居模式等多個方面釐清了美國文化的源流，全面呈現了殖民時期美國的文化面貌，闡發了美國早期四種文化傳統所內含的理念、互動融合的過程及其深遠影響。

This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins.

While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

作者簡介

大衞?哈克特?費舍爾（David Hackett Fischer），馬薩諸塞布蘭迪斯大學歷史學教授，著有《華盛頓的十字路口》（Washington's Crossing），曾榮獲普利策獎。

David Hackett Fischer is Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. He is the author of numerous books, including Paul Revere's Ride and Growing Old in America.