Talk:Albion's Seed
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"Thus, he cannot help but notice that the Puritans and Quakers came from the areas of England with heavy Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian influences while the cavaliers and southern high-landers originated from the more Celtic areas."
This sentence is flawed because the Scotch Irish are a mixed people not primarily Celtic, and the Cavaliers are primarily Anglo Saxon from powerful old families.
[edit] NPOV?
This reads more like a review than an encyclopedia entry to me. I'm amazed it hasn't been tagged for neutrality. Nick xylas 20:51, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
The reason it reads like a review is because most of the "article" was blatantly plagiarized from Nelson Rosit's 1992 review of the book in the Journal of Historical Review. Robplunk 03:33, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
Following up on Robplunk's comment: see that review at http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v12/v12p114_Rosit.html EMU CPA (talk) 22:34, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] "Influenced" lines
The four parenthetical 'influenced" lines after each respective folkway seem to be more extrapolation than explanation of the text. Fischer does not discuss corporate culture, Congregationalism is not mentioned, current US popular culture is not discussed, and neither are "middle-class values" or industrial culture. I'm not saying that someone couldn't argue that was what Fischer was hinting at, but I do not believe that he claimed these influences in the book. If I'm wrong, feel free to let me know, but otherwise, these lines should be removed Nsfreeman 05:30, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Since there's been no objection, I'm going to go ahead and delete those lines. Nsfreeman 19:27, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
