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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11993340.
- catalog contributor b11993341.
- catalog contributor b11993342.
- catalog coverage "Rhode Island History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.".
- catalog coverage "Rhode Island History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-319) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xi, 336 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Colonial metamorphoses in Rhode Island.".
- catalog identifier "1584650176 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Colonial metamorphoses in Rhode Island.".
- catalog isPartOf "Revisiting New England".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Hanover, NH : University Press of New England,".
- catalog relation "Colonial metamorphoses in Rhode Island.".
- catalog spatial "Rhode Island History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.".
- catalog spatial "Rhode Island History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.".
- catalog spatial "Rhode Island".
- catalog subject "974.5/02 21".
- catalog subject "Associations, institutions, etc. Rhode Island History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Associations, institutions, etc. Rhode Island History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "F82 .J33 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The colonial metamorphoses in Rhode Island : a study of institutions in change / Sydney V. James ; edited by Sheila L. Skemp and Bruce C. Daniels.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".