
Albion's Seed
Four British Folkways in America, Vol. 1
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Julian Elfer
This fascinating audiobook 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 audiobook 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.
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A dangerous, modern narrative is that infecting our discourse is the idea that some groups lack culture while others supply it. DHF's point about the intermingling of these four folkways and how they conceptualized and then manifested a dynamic form of freedom in the American experiment might very well have saved the world .. and will continue to save it if we consider the subtleties of "boring" vanilla.
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It is also a pleasure to listen to with the narrator using a pleasant neutral voice, except when voicing specific local dialects which are a part of the author’s many folkways.
A brilliant analysis of American social history.
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