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The Economic and Social Transformation of Rural Rhode Island, 1780-1850

Daniel P. Jones

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Description:In the body of literature on New England during the early years of the Republic, there have been few sustained studies of its rural regions. A significant contribution to this growing field of interest is Daniel P. Jones's work on the transformation of northwestern Rhode Island from a relatively insular region, resistant to economic and social reforms promoted by commercial interests in the eastern part of the state, to a full participant in a regional economy centered in Providence. Much is known about late eighteenth-century rural communities' periodic resistance to and rebellion against commercialism, whereas little attention has been paid to the process by which once-alienated communities reintegrated themselves in an increasingly commercial nation. Jones focuses on the gap in New England's history, enriching our understanding of how rural New England lost its isolated character and, through an often painful process, entered the modern world. The industrial revolution brought innovations to the region--turnpikes, tax-supported schools, and cotton-mill dams--that were at first strenuously resisted by the local settlers; however, they eventually adopted the intrusive forms of modernization. In addition, accommodating themselves to the tangible demands of an industrializing state evoked a change in their religious practices, as they abandoned the idiosyncratic practices of the Six-Principle Baptist sect in favor of the more cosmopolitan Free-Will Baptism. The struggles that took place in the rural regions of a commercializing nation have left their mark. As Jones notes in his preface, "From the vantage point of postindustrial United States, the triumph of commercial civilization and its values seems to have been inevitable. Such hindsight, however, was not available to those interior yeomanry who struggled, for a few crucial decades at the turn of the eighteenth century, to maintain their social independence and cultural identity. Although their efforts have gWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Economic and Social Transformation of Rural Rhode Island, 1780-1850. To get started finding The Economic and Social Transformation of Rural Rhode Island, 1780-1850, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In the body of literature on New England during the early years of the Republic, there have been few sustained studies of its rural regions. A significant contribution to this growing field of interest is Daniel P. Jones's work on the transformation of northwestern Rhode Island from a relatively insular region, resistant to economic and social reforms promoted by commercial interests in the eastern part of the state, to a full participant in a regional economy centered in Providence. Much is known about late eighteenth-century rural communities' periodic resistance to and rebellion against commercialism, whereas little attention has been paid to the process by which once-alienated communities reintegrated themselves in an increasingly commercial nation. Jones focuses on the gap in New England's history, enriching our understanding of how rural New England lost its isolated character and, through an often painful process, entered the modern world. The industrial revolution brought innovations to the region--turnpikes, tax-supported schools, and cotton-mill dams--that were at first strenuously resisted by the local settlers; however, they eventually adopted the intrusive forms of modernization. In addition, accommodating themselves to the tangible demands of an industrializing state evoked a change in their religious practices, as they abandoned the idiosyncratic practices of the Six-Principle Baptist sect in favor of the more cosmopolitan Free-Will Baptism. The struggles that took place in the rural regions of a commercializing nation have left their mark. As Jones notes in his preface, "From the vantage point of postindustrial United States, the triumph of commercial civilization and its values seems to have been inevitable. Such hindsight, however, was not available to those interior yeomanry who struggled, for a few crucial decades at the turn of the eighteenth century, to maintain their social independence and cultural identity. Although their efforts have gWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Economic and Social Transformation of Rural Rhode Island, 1780-1850. To get started finding The Economic and Social Transformation of Rural Rhode Island, 1780-1850, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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