Author: Thomas Williams BicknellPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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A History of Barrington, Rhode Island
Author: Thomas Williams BicknellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Profits in the Wilderness
Author: John Frederick MartinPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146960003X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In examining the founding of New England towns during the seventeenth century, John Frederick Martin investigates an old subject with fresh insight. Whereas most historians emphasize communalism and absence of commerce in the seventeenth century, Martin demonstrates that colonists sought profits in town-founding, that town founders used business corporations to organize themselves into landholding bodies, and that multiple and absentee landholding was common. In reviewing some sixty towns and the activities of one hundred town founders, Martin finds that many town residents were excluded from owning common lands and from voting. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century, when proprietors separated from towns, that town institutions emerged as fully public entities for the first time. Martin's study will challenge historians to rethink not only social history but also the cultural history of early New England. Instead of taking sides in the long-standing debate between Puritan scholars and business historians, Martin identifies strains within Puritanism and the rest of the colonists' culture that both discouraged and encouraged land commerce, both supported and undermined communalism, both hindered and hastened development of the wilderness. Rather than portray colonists one-dimensionally, Martin analyzes how several different and competing ethics coexisted within a single, complex, and vibrant New England culture.
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Author: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
The Lands of Rhode Island
Author: Sidney Smith RiderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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The Connecticut Magazine
Author: William Farrand FelchPublisher:
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Warren
Author: Ruth Marris MacaulayPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738564838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The town of Warren, Rhode Island, began life as a maritime community in the late 1700s. It continued to base its economy on the sea until the mid-1800s when the construction of a mill shifted the town's economic base to textiles. This exciting photographic history of Warren chronicles the town's development from about 1870 to 1970 - to this day, Warren includes a number of 18th and 19th century homes, wharves, and warehouses, and many of the earlier incarnations of these structures are still recognizable in today's landscape. The view from the steeple of the Methodist church is substantially unchanged from that which appears in a photograph taken in the 1870s, and only the stately elm trees - since victims to arboreal disease - are missing today from the 19th century streetscapes. This marvelous collection portrays the living history of a charming New England seaport town.
Monthly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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Monthly Bulletin for the Providence Public Library ...
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Author: Thomas Williams BicknellPublisher:
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Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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