The colonial metamorphoses in Rhode Island
Subtitle: a study of institutions in change
By: Sydney V. James ; edited by Sheila L. Skemp and Bruce C. Daniels.
Contributors: Skemp, Sheila L.; Daniels, Bruce Colin.
Series: Revisiting New England
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Hanover, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Associations, institutions, etc. -- Rhode Island -- History -- 17th century.; Associations, institutions, etc. -- Rhode Island -- History -- 18th century.; Rhode Island -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Description: "Colonial historian Sydney V. James describes how Rhode Island's founders created, and then rationalized, the institutions that shaped their lives at both the local and provincial levels. He follows the uneven path taken as they developed town and colony governments, churches and private corporations, and courts and land companies that eventually gave a semblance of form and order to a fractious society.

The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island brings to light new ways of looking at an often neglected period stretching from the founding to the revolutionary era."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-319) and index.