Albion's Seed

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Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America

First edition
Author	David Hackett Fischer
Cover artist	Unknown artist, "The Cholmondeley Ladies", c.1600–10[1]
Country	United States
Subject	American social history
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	1989
Pages	946
ISBN	978-0-19-506905-1

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 political culture of the modern United States.^[2] 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."^[3]