![]() ![]() They spoke distinctive English dialects and built their houses in diverse ways. They brought to America different folkways which became the basis of regional cultures in the United States. These four groups differed in many ways-in religion, rank, generation and place of origin. The fourth was a great flight from the borderlands of North Britain and northern Ireland to the American backcountry (ca. The third was the "Friends' migration,"-the Quakers-from the North Midlands and Wales to the Delaware Valley (ca. The second was the movement of a Royalist elite and indentured servants from the south of England to Virginia (ca. ![]() The first was an exodus of Puritans from the east of England to Massachusetts (1629-1640). 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.įrom 1629 to 1775, North America was settled by four great waves of English-speaking immigrants. This book is the first volume in a cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. ![]()
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