Immigrant Origins of the Virginia Gentry
A Study of Cultural Transmission and Innovation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3476534 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin H Quitt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 629 |
| Publication date | 1988-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The William and Mary Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-5597 • E-ISSN: 1933-7698 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2936981 |
| OpenAlex | W2329159289 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
I N the middle decades of the seventeenth century, roughly i645 to I 67 5, a distinguishable group of immigrant leaders arrived in Virginia, where they founded families whose names would become identified with the pre-Revolutionary gentry. The careers of these men provide a unique perspective into the process of cultural transmission and innovation in the Anglo-American world, for their stories involve them in cultural interaction on three fronts: with their English backgrounds, with conditions they encountered in the colony, and with their legacy to subsequent generations of gentry families. Through them we can follow cultural evolution over space-from England to Virginia-and over time-from charter settlers to mid-century immigrant leaders and from the latter to their Virginia-born sons.1
Archaeology · Cultural transmission in animals · Ethnology · Gentry · Geography · Immigration · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2020 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |