Author: Dr. Patrick T. Conley, With Contributions by the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467141488
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Picking up where The Makers of Modern Rhode Island left off, Dr. Patrick T. Conley, president of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, takes us through the golden age of the state's history, from 1861 to 1900. It was during this period that Rhode Island played a leadership role in the Industrial Revolution. From military leaders like General Ambrose Burnside to social reformers such as Sarah Elizabeth Doyle and architects Charles F. McKim and Stanford White, they ensured that the state's contributions to the nation would never be forgotten. This volume includes more than one hundred biographical sketches of influential Rhode Islanders who helped make this brief span of time the greatest in the state's history.
Author: William McLoughlin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393302714
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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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?
Author: Helen M. Burnham
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Author: Lynne Withey
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438424302
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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By the early decades of the eighteenth century, Rhode Island had developed a commercial economy with not one, but two centers. Urban Growth in Colonial Rhode Island is the tale of these two cities: Newport, fifth largest city in the colonies, and the much smaller Providence. This absorbing history of two interdependent cities in a restricted region shows how they developed, competed with each other, and eventually traded places as major and secondary economic centers within the region. The book has drawn upon the substantial body of local and regional history of colonial America. Unlike other studies, which concentrate on the social structure and family life of rural communities, Urban Growth in Colonial Rhode Island explores the relationship between economic development and social structure in an urban setting. The book concludes with a discussion of the impact of the Revolution on the two cities, and the ways in which the war, combined with general economic trends, transformed Providence into Rhode Island's major city.
Author: First Universalist Society (Providence, R.I.)
Publisher:
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Category : Providence (R.I.)
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Author: Rick Petreycik
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 0761480021
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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This book explores the geography, climate, history, people, government, and economy of Rhode Island. All books in the It's My State! � series are the definitive research tool for readers looking to know the ins and outs of a specific state, including comprehensive coverage of its history, people, culture, geography, economy and government.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher:
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Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Federal, State, and Community Services
Publisher:
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Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Author: George M. Goodwin
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584654247
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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A richly illustrated survey of the history and culture of Rhode Island Jews.
Author: United States. Congress Senate
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 2548
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