Author: SAMUEL GREENE ARNOLD
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
Author: SAMUEL GREENE ARNOLD
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
History of the State of Rhode Island And
Author: Samuel Greene Arnold
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429022760
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429022760
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Rhode Island: A History (States and the Nation)
Author: William McLoughlin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393302714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
With a Historical Guide prepared by the editors of the American Association for State and Local History. High atop the Rhode Island capitol in Providence, a bronze likeness of "The Independent Man" keeps watch over a state that historically has put the ideal of individual liberty before all others. Like many ideals, this one was freighted with many meanings. As the colony grew in the seventeenth century, the belief in religious liberty and freedom of conscience espoused by its founder, Roger Williams, led to the development of political liberty and practical democracy. In the eighteenth century, that dedication to individualism made Rhode Islanders into businessmen of the first order, willing to take the big risk in hope of a bigger reward. Their land being poor in natural resources, Rhode Islanders turned to trade; accumulating wealth from traffic in rum and slaves, they built in Newport and Providence small but elegant copies of Georgian England, and worried more about taxes and currency than about religion. When they felt poorly served by British policies, they became ready revolutionaries and led in the founding of a new nation. After the Civil War, their children took individual liberty to mean economic laissez-faire, ushering in the state's golden age when Rhode Island senator Nelson Aldrich became known as the "general manager" of the United States. Through countless changes in the twentieth century, the ideal still survives and asks old questions of new generations of Rhode Islanders from many ethnic backgrounds: How best to reconcile the rights of minorities with the rule of the majority, and how best to secure the individual liberty and economic opportunity that Roger Williams and Moses Brown would have understood so well?
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393302714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
With a Historical Guide prepared by the editors of the American Association for State and Local History. High atop the Rhode Island capitol in Providence, a bronze likeness of "The Independent Man" keeps watch over a state that historically has put the ideal of individual liberty before all others. Like many ideals, this one was freighted with many meanings. As the colony grew in the seventeenth century, the belief in religious liberty and freedom of conscience espoused by its founder, Roger Williams, led to the development of political liberty and practical democracy. In the eighteenth century, that dedication to individualism made Rhode Islanders into businessmen of the first order, willing to take the big risk in hope of a bigger reward. Their land being poor in natural resources, Rhode Islanders turned to trade; accumulating wealth from traffic in rum and slaves, they built in Newport and Providence small but elegant copies of Georgian England, and worried more about taxes and currency than about religion. When they felt poorly served by British policies, they became ready revolutionaries and led in the founding of a new nation. After the Civil War, their children took individual liberty to mean economic laissez-faire, ushering in the state's golden age when Rhode Island senator Nelson Aldrich became known as the "general manager" of the United States. Through countless changes in the twentieth century, the ideal still survives and asks old questions of new generations of Rhode Islanders from many ethnic backgrounds: How best to reconcile the rights of minorities with the rule of the majority, and how best to secure the individual liberty and economic opportunity that Roger Williams and Moses Brown would have understood so well?
History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Author: Samuel Greene Arnold
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382318113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382318113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Author: Thomas Williams Bicknell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations; Volume 2
Author: Samuel Greene Arnold
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016152419
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016152419
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Hidden History of Rhode Island
Author: Glenn V. Laxton
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625843038
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Hidden History of Rhode Island delivers the best Ocean State stories you've never heard before. Surprising tales and unexpected anecdotes color Rhode Island's legacy, from the accounts of its three brave Titanic survivors to the whirlwind Revolutionary War romance between a Smithfield girl and a French viscount. Rhode Island historian Glenn Laxton uncovers the exceptional citizens whom history has forgotten, like Robert the Hermit, a man who endured three escapes from slavery before finding liberty and peace in Rumford; the illustrious Lippitt family, who spearheaded advancements in deaf education; and Christiana Bannister, a Narragansett tribe member, nineteenth-century entrepreneur and wife to the most successful African American artist of the time. With moments of tragedy, as in the Lexington steamboat disaster, as well as triumph, as in the case of small-town boy turned baseball hero Joe Connolly, Laxton reveals Rhode Island beneath the surface.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625843038
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Hidden History of Rhode Island delivers the best Ocean State stories you've never heard before. Surprising tales and unexpected anecdotes color Rhode Island's legacy, from the accounts of its three brave Titanic survivors to the whirlwind Revolutionary War romance between a Smithfield girl and a French viscount. Rhode Island historian Glenn Laxton uncovers the exceptional citizens whom history has forgotten, like Robert the Hermit, a man who endured three escapes from slavery before finding liberty and peace in Rumford; the illustrious Lippitt family, who spearheaded advancements in deaf education; and Christiana Bannister, a Narragansett tribe member, nineteenth-century entrepreneur and wife to the most successful African American artist of the time. With moments of tragedy, as in the Lexington steamboat disaster, as well as triumph, as in the case of small-town boy turned baseball hero Joe Connolly, Laxton reveals Rhode Island beneath the surface.
History of the State of Rhode Island
Author: Samuel Arnold
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368833901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368833901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
History of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Author: Samuel Greene Arnold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The History of the State of Rhode Island. with Illustrations from Original Sketches
Author: And Company
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780740467899
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780740467899
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description