Urban Growth In Colonial Rhode Island

Author : Lynne Withey
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0873957512

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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 : Keith T. Krawczynski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313047046

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Daily Life in the Colonial City by Keith T. Krawczynski Pdf

An exploration of day-to-day urban life in colonial America. The American city was an integral part of the colonial experience. Although the five largest cities in colonial America--Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Charles Town, and Newport--held less than ten percent of the American popularion on the eve of the American Revolution, they were particularly significant for a people who resided mostly in rural areas, and wilderness. These cities and other urban hubs contained and preserved the European traditions, habits, customs, and institutions from which their residents had emerged. They were also centers of commerce, transportation, and communication; held seats of colonial government; and were conduits for the transfer of Old World cultures. With a focus on the five largest cities but also including life in smaller urban centers, Krawczynski's nuanced treatment will fill a significant gap on the reference shelves and serve as an essential source for students of American history, sociology, and culture. In-depth, thematic chapters explore many aspects of urban life in colonial America, including working conditions for men, women, children, free blacks, and slaves as well as strikes and labor issues; the class hierarchy and its purpose in urban society; childbirth, courtship, family, and death; housing styles and urban diet; and the threat of disease and the growth of poverty.

Author : Richard Buel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300073887

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In Irons by Richard Buel Pdf

Bogens undertitel er et amerikansk udtryk for at "Ligge i vindøjet" og der henvises til kolonikrigene, der så deres begyndelse i 1775. Således var vindøjet her den engelske flådes blokade af de nordamerikanske fristater. Den økonomiske og militære historie hænger sammen, og denne bog foretager en bedre end normalt set videnskabeligt forsket årsagssammenhæng, idet den som hovedkonklusion ser på den engelske flådeblokades påvirkning af landbrugssektoren og videre på den skade fristaterne påførtes ved engelsk besættelse af betydningsfulde landbrugsområder og manglende øversøiske eksportmuligheder for disse oprørske stater.

Author : Jack P. Greene
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807864142

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Pursuits of Happiness by Jack P. Greene Pdf

In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development. Synthesizing literature of the previous two decades on the process of social development and the formation of American culture, he challenges the central assumptions that have traditionally been used to analyze colonial British American history. Greene argues that the New England declension model traditionally employed by historians is inappropriate for describing social change in all the other early modern British colonies. The settler societies established in Ireland, the Atlantic island colonies of Bermuda and the Bahamas, the West Indies, the Middle Colonies, and the Lower South followed instead a pattern first exhibited in America in the Chesapeake. That pattern involved a process in which these new societies slowly developed into more elaborate cultural entities, each of which had its own distinctive features. Greene also stresses the social and cultural convergence between New England and the other regions of colonial British America after 1710 and argues that by the eve of the American Revolution Britain's North American colonies were both more alike and more like the parent society than ever before. He contends as well that the salient features of an emerging American culture during these years are to be found not primarily in New England puritanism but in widely manifest configurations of sociocultural behavior exhibited throughout British North America, including New England, and he emphasized the centrality of slavery to that culture.

Author : Raymond A. Mohl,Roger Biles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493083626

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The Making of Urban America by Raymond A. Mohl,Roger Biles Pdf

The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultural aspects of urban history, these essays illustrate the growth and change that created modern-day urban life. Dynamic topics such as technology, immigration and ethnicity, suburbanization, sunbelt cities, urban political history, and planning and housing are examined. The Making of Urban America is the only reader available that covers all of U.S. urban history and that also includes the most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject.

Author : John S. Gilkeson Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400854356

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Middle-Class Providence, 1820-1940 by John S. Gilkeson Jr. Pdf

This book inquires into what Americans mean when they call the United States a middle-class nation and why the vast majority of Americans identify themselves as middle class. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Sydney V. James
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1584650176

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The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island by Sydney V. James Pdf

An expert's final word on institutional development and change in colonial Rhode Island.

Author : Marian Mathison Desrosiers
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476669328

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John Banister of Newport by Marian Mathison Desrosiers Pdf

Merchant John Banister (1707-1767) of Newport, Rhode Island, wore many hats: exporter, importer, wholesaler, retailer, money-lender, extender of credit and insurer, owner and outfitter of sailing vessels, and ship builder for the slave trade. His recently discovered accounting records reveal his role in transforming colonial trade in mid-18th century America. He combined business acumen and a strong work ethic with knowledge of the law and new technologies. Through his maritime activities and real estate development, he was a rain-maker for artisans, workers and producers, contributing to income opportunities for businesswomen, freemen and slaves. Drawing on Banister's meticulous daybooks, ledgers, letters and receipts, the author analyzes his contribution to the economic history of colonial America, highlighting the complexity of the commerce of the era.

Author : John Styles,Amanda Vickery
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122855310

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Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 by John Styles,Amanda Vickery Pdf

Between 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. The British Atlantic was an empire of goods, held together not just by political authority and a common language, but by a shared material culture nourished by constant flows of commodities. Diets expanded to include exotic luxuries such as tea and sugar, the fruits of mercantile and colonial expansion. Homes were furnished with novel goods, like clocks and earthenware teapots, the products of British industrial ingenuity. This groundbreaking book compares these developments in Britain and North America, bringing together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars to consider basic questions about women, men, and objects in these regions. In asking who did the shopping, how things were used, and why they became the subject of political dispute, the essays show the profound significance of everyday objects in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Connecticut
ISBN : WISC:89067357301

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Connecticut History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Carolyn Livingston,Dawn Elizabeth Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015075648173

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Rhode Island's Musical Heritage by Carolyn Livingston,Dawn Elizabeth Smith Pdf

This volume brings together twenty-six essays on diverse subjects of relevance to the social and cultural history of the United States. Through the lives, institutions, and events chronicled, the book gives readers an intimate view of music and music-making in Rhode Island, past and present.

Author : Douglas Leo Winiarski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Great Awakening
ISBN : IND:30000067787162

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All Manner of Error and Delusion by Douglas Leo Winiarski Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015042566946

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The World Book Encyclopedia by Anonim Pdf

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

Author : World Book, Inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 071660101X

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The World Book Encyclopedia by World Book, Inc Pdf

An illustrated, alphabetical encyclopedia to places, people and events.

Author : Sidney Goldstein,Kurt Bernd Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Population density
ISBN : UOM:39015026805690

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Metropolitanization and Population Change in Rhode Island by Sidney Goldstein,Kurt Bernd Mayer Pdf