3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
David Hackett Fischer's 2022 magnum opus — examining how enslaved Africans, through the specific cultural heritages they brought from distinct African regions, shaped the development of American culture, language, music, food, and values.
David Hackett Fischer's 1989 magnum opus arguing that four distinct British regional cultures (Puritans from East Anglia to Massachusetts, Cavaliers from south/west England to Virginia, Quakers from North Midlands to Delaware, Borderland Scots-Irish to the Backcountry) brought their specific folkways to America — and that these four cultures still fundamentally structure American regional differences.
David Hackett Fischer's 2012 comparative history of the United States and New Zealand — arguing that Americans organize social life around freedom while New Zealanders organize it around fairness — and that these different founding values create distinctive national characters.