Albion's Seed. David Hackett Fischer. 1989

This book explains the American colonial experience using the "germ theory" coupled with Turnerian frontier themes and migration models. Fischer concludes that four large waves of English immigrants settled in the colonies between 1629 and 1725 bringing with them their British folkways; this indicates their strong ties to England. These folkways included things such as manners, morals, mores, and habits, etc. Many of these folkways show up over and over again in a variety of written documents. Fischer notes that these English settlers initially settled in the Appalachian region and later took their cultural heritage with them as they moved throughout the Southwest and the West.