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Author : Antoinette Forrester Downing,Vincent Scully (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015050989378
Author : Antoinette Forrester Downing,Vincent Joseph Scully
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Architecture
ISBN : LCCN:52005027
Author : Antoinette Downing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:809684927
Author : James L. Yarnall
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1584654910
A comprehensive architectural history of America's greatest living architectural laboratory.
Author : Antoinette Forrester Downing,Vincent Joseph Scully
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OCLC:1406986358
Author : Hoke P. Kimball,Bruce Henson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780786470518
This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and ends with American independence. In addition to the 13 colonies that became the United States in 1783, the study includes three colonies in present-day Florida and Canada--East Florida, West Florida and the Province of Quebec--obtained by Great Britain after the French and Indian War.
Author : William McLoughlin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1986-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393348668
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 : James D. Kornwolf,Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801859867
Incorporating more than 3,000 illustrations, Kornwolf's work conveys the full range of the colonial encounter with the continent's geography, from the high forms of architecture through formal landscape design and town planning. From these pages emerge the fine arts of environmental design, an understanding of the political and economic events that helped to determine settlement in North America, an appreciation of the various architectural and landscape forms that the settlers created, and an awareness of the diversity of the continent's geography and its peoples. Considering the humblest buildings along with the mansions of the wealthy and powerful, public buildings, forts, and churches, Kornwolf captures the true dynamism and diversity of colonial communities - their rivalries and frictions, their outlooks and attitudes - as they extended their hold on the land.
Author : John R. Tschirch
Publisher : Giles
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1911282697
The first book to focus on the urban development of Newport, Rhode Island, this is an extensively illustrated, multi-layered view of the city as both an urban entity and a cultural site of national significance.
Author : Lynne Withey
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0873957512
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 : 470 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030781181
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1952-07
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007838951
Author : Brian M. Stinson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439664216
Newport, Rhode Island, has been a city of innovation since its beginning nearly four centuries ago. Some of the claims on a national level are true, while some have been greatly distorted over the years. The first law banning the importation of slaves in the colonies was enacted in the city, and the first Methodist church in the world with a steeple and bell is located here. But was the first female lighthouse keeper in America from here? Was Newport the first place where a medical lecture was given? Author and research historian Brian M. Stinson offers a chronological collection of vignettes detailing the city's many firsts.
Author : Patrick T. Conley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-19
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781614232278
Take a journey with us back to early America, where Rhode Island's founders laid the groundwork for America's policy of religious freedom. Dr. Patrick T. Conley, Rhode Island's preeminent historian, is our guide for this expedition, teaching us about the individuals and events that shaped Rhode Island's identity. Learn what led Roger Williams to write The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution and discover how James Franklin, older brother of Benjamin, left a lasting impact on the future of American publishing. Find out why Mary Dyer fought for her religious beliefs until she became one of the "Boston martyrs"; how Anne Hutchinson overcame a male-dominated society to allow women the right to preach and teach; and how General Nathanael Greene helped to liberate the South during the American Revolution. These colorful biographies of political, military and religious leaders, artists and craftsmen, scientists and philanthropists illuminate the beginning of America's smallest state, but one that has always exhibited remarkable diversity.
Author : Walter Muir Whitehill
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838228
This summary essay and the heavily annotated bibliography covering the period from the first colonization to 1826 are primarily intended to aid the scholar and student by suggesting areas of further study and ways of expanding the conventional interpretations of early American history. Originally published in 1935. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.