Finish reading "Albion's Seed"

This is a book by David Hackett Fischer. I first found out about it when two of my history profs mentioned it. One of them used it for lecture material, so I got an overview – enough to make me want to read it. It’s really interesting. It’s sort of “history by the numbers”. That is, instead of being about famous dates, events, and people (like most history is), it looks to records to get all kinds of different cultural information. Specifically, it follows the patterns of how four major regions in Britain uniquely influenced four major regions in the birth of America – influence that can still be seen today, like in the names choosen for children, architecture, celebrations, food, views on time, etc., etc. It really is fascinating. It’s also nearly 1000 pages. It could almost be four individual books – one on each region. I read through the first one – New England and the puritans a while ago. Next up is the Virginia area.