HISTORY OF THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
Author: SAMUEL GREENE ARNOLD
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 594
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Author: SAMUEL GREENE ARNOLD
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 594
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Greene Arnold
Publisher: Applewood Books
Published: 2010-02
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 1429022760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William McLoughlin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1986-06-17
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780393302714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith 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: Samuel Greene Arnold
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 604
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Greene Arnold
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-04-25
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 3382318113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint 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.
Author: Samuel Arnold
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-09-28
Total Pages: 594
ISBN-13: 336883391X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author: Thomas Williams Bicknell
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 464
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Williams Bicknell
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Greene Arnold
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Published: 1894
Total Pages: 614
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George H. Kellner
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781892724403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a book as intriguing as its subject, authors George H. Kellner and J. Stanley Lemons have successfully blended an innovative, forceful text with extraordinary images to produce a lively historical canvas of the state of Rhode Island. Rhode Island began when dissenters like Roger Williams, Ann Hutchinson, William Coddington, and Samuel Gorton established the four original towns on Narragansett Bay in the 1630s and 1640s. As a haven for religious freedom, the colony was harshly criticized by its neighbors and denounced as the "Isle of Errors." And when resentment against Britain turned to war, Rhode Island was the first colony to renounce its allegiance to George III -- but the last of the original 13 states to ratify the Constitution, stubbornly holding out because the new Constitution restricted state's rights. Boldly deserting the limitations of the more traditional history book, the authors have included topical themes selected for their intrinsic interest, such as recreation and the spirit of patriotism, plus a fascinating segment about Newport's "High Society." And they take a penetrating look at Rhode Island's institutions and controversial figures of the last three centuries.