Table of Contents
1 The Puritan Emigration, 1630–1641.- Historical Background.- The Puritan Immigrants.- Fundamentals of Puritanism.- Family Values.- Marriage Customs in Massachusetts.- Gender and Sexual Attitudes.- Puritan Child-Rearing.- Social Class, Religion, and Child-Rearing.- Magic in Massachusetts.- Puritan Education.- The Sad Dress Code.- Sports and Puritans.- Time in Massachusetts.- Puritans and Work.- Puritan Law.- Freedom in Massachusetts.- The Colonial Legacy in Massachusetts.- 2 The Chesapeake Bay Migration, 1642–1675.- Historical Background.- The Tidewater Immigrants.- Servants and Slaves in Virginia.- Life in the Tidewater Virginia Colony.- Literacy and Oral Culture.- Values and Religion.- The Family.- Marriage.- Gender.- Sexual Behavior.- Child-Rearing in the Chesapeake Bay Colony.- Magic.- Education.- The Dress Code.- Recreation.- Work.- Time.- Wealth.- Law.- Freedom.- 3 The Quaker Migration, 1675–1725.- Historical Background.- The Quaker Immigrants.- Religious Beliefs of the Quakers.- Social Origins of the Quakers.- The Delaware Valley Colony.- Family in the Delaware Valley.- Marriage among Quakers.- Gender in the Delaware Valley.- Delaware Valley Sexual Attitudes.- Delaware Valley Child-Rearing.- Quakers and Magic.- Quaker Education.- Plain Clothes.- Quaker Sports.- Quakers and Work.- Time for Quakers.- Law and the Quakers.- Freedom among Quakers.- William Penn.- The Development of Pennsylvania.- Town and Country.- Class Anarchy and Boss Rule in Quaker Pennsylvania 1682–1726.- Public Responsibility in Pennsylvania.- Heresy, Hierarchy, and Higher Education.- 4 The Backcountry Immigrants, 1718–1775.- Historical Background.- Borderland Migration.- Religion of the Borderers.- The Backcountry.- Backcountry Family Style.- Marriage in the Backcountry.- BackcountryGender Patterns.- Backcountry Sexual Behavior.- Backcountry Child-Rearing.- Backcountry Magic.- Backcountry Education.- Backcountry Dress.- Backcountry Sports.- Backcountry Work.- The Backcountry and Time.- Backcountry Rank.- Backcountry Migration and Settlement.- Backcountry Law.- Backcountry Freedom.- 5 Four Colonial Cultures.- Divergence among the Colonies.- Disputes and Conflicts.- Population Features.- Homogeneity or Heterogeneity.- Religion and Rank.- 6 Regional Identity in the Four Colonies.- Identification, Identity, and Regional Issues: Three Cases.- Regional Culture and Personality.- Ethnic or Regional Factors.- Regional Identity.- The Development of Idealized Regional Personality Traits.- Child Development in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.- Child Development in Tidewater Virginia.- Child Development in the Quaker Colony.- Child Development in the Backcountry.- Acceptable Personality Traits by Region.- Major Defenses.- 7 Regional Rates of Eight Conditions in the United States.- Regional Speech Patterns.- Four Regions.- A Caveat.- Education and Regional Culture.- Births to Unwed Mothers.- Sexually Transmitted Diseases.- Regional Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol-Related Mortality.- Present-Day Patterns of Order and Violence.- Sexual Abuse of Children.- Physical Abuse of Children.- 8 Toward Understanding Regional Rates.- Education.- Unwed Motherhood.- Sexually Transmitted Diseases.- Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol-Related Mortality.- Homicide.- Sexual and Physical Abuse of Children.- Unemployment.- Unemployment and Homicide.- 9 Regional Comparisons in England.- Regional Identities in England.- England’s Current Economic Situation.- The North West.- Humberside and Yorkshire.- The North.- West Midlands.- Summary.- 10 Regional Identity and Psychiatry.- Acculturation.- Geneticor Cultural Inheritance.- Ego-Syntonic and Socio-Syntonic Behavior.- Psychiatric Treatment.- Application of the Concept of Regional Identity.- Clinical Application.- References.
