The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island
A Study of Institutions in Change
Sydney V. James, ed.; Sheila L. Skemp, ed.; Bruce C. Daniels, ed.

University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• Customary Ways and Radical Ideas in the Original Town
• The Colonial Governments in the Seventeenth Century
• Disintegration of the Communal Ideal in the Original Towns
• Land Promotions and New Towns
• Religious Association Replacing Secular
• he Rise of the Colonial Government and a New Direction for Institutional Development
• Subduing the Conflics over Land
• Town Ambitions and Town government
• Sacred Felloship in Relation to Time and Space
• The Framework of Government after 1738
• Steps toward the Private Corporation
• Ecclesiastical Organization and Civil Incorporation
• Retrospect
• Notes and Ke to Short Citations




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