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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809605803321

Titolo

A New Jersey anthology / / edited by Maxine N. Lurie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rivergate Books/Rutgers University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-56238-X

9786612562389

0-8135-4914-0

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (499 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LurieMaxine N. <1940->

Disciplina

974.9

Soggetti

New Jersey History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Brief Overview of New Jersey History -- 1. New Jersey: The Unique Proprietary -- 2. Lord Cornbury Redressed: The Governor and the Problem Portrait -- 3. The “Cockpit” Reconsidered: Revolutionary New Jersey as a Military Theater -- 4. Caught in the Middle: New Jersey’s Indians and the American Revolution -- 5. New Jersey and the Two Constitutions -- 6. Party Formation in New Jersey in the Jackson Era -- 7. Paterson -- 8. Moving Toward Breaking the Chains: Black New Jerseyans and the American Revolution -- 9. Gettysburg -- 10. Newport of the Nouveaux Bourgeois -- 11. Mr. Justice Pitney and Progressivism -- 12. The Applejack Campaign of 1919: “As ‘Wet’ as the Atlantic Ocean” -- 13. “Summing Up” and “Wednesday the Thirteenth” -- 14. Frank Hague, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Politics of the New Deal -- 15. The 1971 Strike -- 16. The Conscience of Congress -- 17. Simple Justice -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This anthology contains seventeen essays covering eighteenth-century agrarian unrest, the Revolutionary War, politics in the Jackson era, feminism and the women's movements, slavery from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, strikes and labor struggles, land use and regional planning issues, Blacks in Newark, the current political state of New Jersey, and more. The contributors are Michal R. Belknap, Lynn W. Dorsett, Gregory Evans Dowd, Charles E. Funnell, Steve Golin, Maxine N. Lurie, Richard P. McCormick, Gary Mitchell, Simeon F. Moss, Marie



Marmo Mullaney, Mary R. Murrin, Gerald M. Pomper, Clement A. Price, Thomas L. Purvis, Daniel Schaffer, Warren E. Stickle III, Maurice Tandler.