Leaders Of Rhode Island S Golden Age The

Author : Dr. Patrick T. Conley, With Contributions by the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467141482

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Leaders of Rhode Island's Golden Age, The by Dr. Patrick T. Conley, With Contributions by the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame Pdf

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
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393348668

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Rhode Island: A History (States and the Nation) by William McLoughlin Pdf

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 : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1560 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015081320825

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1072 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D035382684

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Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1956 by United States. Congress. House. Appropriations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1580 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3636998

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Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1956 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LOC:00220922534

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Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriatons for ... Department of Health, Education, and Welare by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : Lynne Withey
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1984-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438424309

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Urban Growth in Colonial Rhode Island by Lynne Withey Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Geriatrics
ISBN : MINN:31951D01047522U

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Aging by Anonim Pdf

Author : George M. Goodwin,Ellen Smith
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1584654244

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The Jews of Rhode Island by George M. Goodwin,Ellen Smith Pdf

A richly illustrated survey of the history and culture of Rhode Island Jews.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Age distribution (Demography)
ISBN : UOM:39015078601039

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Studies of the Aged and Aging by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Aging
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119635600

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Studies of the Aged and Aging by United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Age distribution (Demography)
ISBN : UOM:39015076748535

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Studies of the Aged and Aging: Federal and State activities by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1894 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015038720101

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Committee Prints by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare Pdf

Author : Maryland. State Coordinating Commission on Problems of the Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Older people
ISBN : MINN:31951D03464839W

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State Leadership in Action for Education in Aging by Maryland. State Coordinating Commission on Problems of the Aging Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1210 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116494493

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)