Rhode Island (Record no. 11379)
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
|---|---|
| International Standard Book Number | 0393056759 |
| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER | |
| International Standard Serial Number | 9780393056754 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 974.5 McL |
| Item number | 15 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) | |
| Classification number | 974.5 McL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | McLoughlin, William G. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Rhode Island |
| Remainder of title | a bicentennial history |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | William G. McLoughlin |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1978 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 240 p. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE | |
| Title | States and the Nation |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes Bibliography and Index |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Religious freedom and local self-government -- Rhode Island becomes an imperial entrepột -- Vanguard of revolution and holdout against federal union -- Industrialization and social conflict -- Prosperity, respectability, and corruption -- Changing, surviving, hoping. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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? |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | 47635 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | History |
| Location of event | Rhode Island |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | 900 - 999 |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Permanent Location | Current Location | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Public note |
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| Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | 8.95 | 974.5 McL | 47635 | 2007-07-31 | In Memory of : Minnette Burke |