The colonial metamorphoses in Rhode Island : a study of institutions in change / Sydney V. James ; edited by Sheila L. Skemp and Bruce C. Daniels

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Contents: Introduction: "The Generall Having Life in Perticulars" -- Ch. 1. Customary Ways and Radical Ideas in the Original Town -- Ch. 2. The Colonial Governments in the Seventeenth Century -- Ch. 3. Disintegration of the Communal Ideal in the Original Towns -- Ch. 4. Land Promotions and New Towns -- Ch. 5. Religious Association Replacing Secular -- Ch. 6. The Rise of the Colonial Government and a New Direction for Institutional Development -- Ch. 7. Subduing the Conflicts over Land -- Ch. 8. Town Ambitions and Town Government -- Ch. 9. Sacred Fellowship in Relation to Time and Space -- Ch. 10. The Framework of Government after 1738 -- Ch. 11. Steps toward the Private Corporation -- Ch. 12. Ecclesiastical Organization and Civil Incorporation
Summary: "Colonial historian Sydney V. James describes how Rhode Island's founders created, and then rationalized, the institutions that shaped their lives at both the local and provincial levels. He follows the uneven path taken as they developed town and colony governments, churches and private corporations, and courts and land companies that eventually gave a semblance of form and order to a fractious society. The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island brings to light new ways of looking at an often neglected period stretching from the founding to the revolutionary era."--BOOK JACKET.

Date: 2000; C2000; 17th century; 18th century; Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775