Albion's Seed

[Anonymous No.13059772]

Best book on American history/culture I've read.

[Anonymous No.13059822]

>>13059772
>Land of Desire opens with the premise that American democracy shifted fundamentally after the Civil War as land ownership became concentrated in fewer hands and the population moved to cities to become wage laborers. In the accompanying cultural transformation money gained importance as the good life came to be defined no longer by control over production but by the power to consume (pp. 3–8).[2] The emphasis shifted away from home, family, and self-reliance and towards standard of living, comfort, and luxury. This new mentality permeated all parts of society, including religious traditions, which adapted to the new mode of capitalism despite pockets of resistance.

American Cultural History is an endlessly fascinating subject. The more you get into it, the more you can perceive the echoes of the past in the world around you.

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>>13059772

YOU MEAN: «UNITEDSTATIAN», NOT: «AMERICAN».

[Anonymous No.13059838]

>>13059826
Stop.

[Anonymous No.13059842]

>>13059772
I've heard of this. What did you like about it?

[R Æ V S S Q A N D V S !KNDYYIIins No.13059844]

>>13059838

I TOO WANT TO STOP, BUT I MUST NOT RELENT UNTIL THE ERROR IS CORRECTED, AT LEAST PARTIALLY, AMONGST THE USERS OF THIS BOARD.

[Anonymous No.13059847]

>>13059822
>This book is not a record of the major events in American history during the nineteenth century. It is concerned with minor movements, with the cults and manias of that period. Its personages are fanatics, and radicals, and mountebanks. Its intention is to connect these secondary movements and figures with the primary forces of the century, and to supply a background in American history for the Prohibitionists and the Pentecostalists; the diet-faddists and the dealers in mail-order Personality; the play censors and the Fundamentalists; the free-lovers and eugenists; the cranks and possibly the saints. Sects, cults, manias, movements, fads, religious excitements, and the relation of each of these to the others and to the orderly progress of America are the subject. The subject is of course as timely at the beginning of the twenty-first century as when the book first appeared in 1928. Seldes’s fascinated and often sympathetic accounts of dreamers, rogues, frauds, sectarians, madmen, and geniuses from Jonathan Edwards to the messianic murderer Matthias have established The Stammering Century not only as a lasting contribution to American history but as a classic in its own right.

[Anonymous No.13059879]

>>13059772
Frank L. Baum of the Wizard of Oz fame started his carreer constructing elaborate window displays for Wanamaker's department store. Karl Marx made a few extra bucks as the european correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune during the civil war. Followers of the french utopian Charles Fourier set up communes in New England, at the time, they were often associated with the abolitionist movement and the transcendentalists. Polymath Buckminster Fuller was the grand nephew of Margaret Fuller. Westwards to California. In the 60s, Bucky's ideas were big amongst the hippies who built geodesic domes in their communes, as they stood for the dream of an organic fusion of man, nature, and technology. At a Wyoming ranch, John Perry Barlow, sometimes collaborator of Jerry Garcia and the Dead, laid down the myth of cyberspace as the ultimate cowboy frontier


https://www.eff.org/es/pages/jack-young-pioneer

>>13059826
why is Mexico so tiny?

[Anonymous No.13059889]

>>13059842
Good overview at Slate Star Codex worth taking the 15 minutes to read: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/04/27/book-review-albions-seed/

Half my family is New England WASP. It was fun reading about the cultural origins of my father's (and my own) quirks.

And it's just plain good history and a lot of fun to read.

[Anonymous No.13059894]

>>13059826
TIL Alaska's independent

[Anonymous No.13059898]

>>13059889
Nice, I'll look for it at the library.