CONTENTS

 

PREFACE
An Idea of Cultural History

ILLUSTRATIONS
Drawings, Maps and Tables

INTRODUCTION
The Determinants of a Voluntary Society

EAST ANGLIA TO MASSACHUSETTS: The Exodus of the English Puritans, 1629-41

THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND TO VIRGINIA: Distressed Cavaliers and Indentured Servants, 1642-75

NORTH MIDLANDS TO THE DELAWARE:
The Friends’ Migration, 1675-1725

BORDERLANDS TO THE BACKCOUNTRY:
The Flight from North Britain, 1717-1775

CONCLUSION
Four British Folkways in American History: The Origin and Persistence of Regional Cultures in the United States

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Sources for Maps

Index