A New Jersey Anthology.
Title:
A New Jersey Anthology.
Author:
Belknap, Michal.
ISBN:
9780813549149
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (500 pages)
Contents:
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 Miltary 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.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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