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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewAn absolutely superb collection in every aspect,
A New Jersey Anthology covers all of the chronological and topical bases with remarkable comprehensiveness. Its contributions are not only appropriate to the purpose of the book; they have the additional merit of being very significant pieces of scholarship on their own, not only in the history of New Jersey but in American history in general. . . . Maxine LurieÆs illuminating headnotes for each article, which include not only shrewd interpretive insights but also bibliographical references, set this book significantly apart. In short, this is an excellent anthology, professionally done. . . . Anyone who teaches in New Jersey will want to own a copy of the book, use it, and assign significant parts of it. -- Douglas Greenberg * president and director, Chicago Historical Society and chairman, New Jersey Hist *
Table of ContentsNew Jersey: the unique proprietary
Maxine N. Lurie
Lord Cornbury redressed: the governor and the problem portrait
Patricia U. Bonomi
The "cockpit" reconsidered: revolutionary New Jersey as a military theater
Mark Edward Lender
Caught in the middle: New Jersey's Indians and the American Revolution
Lorraine E. Williams
New Jersey and the two Constitutions
Mary R. Murrin
Party formation in New Jersey in the Jackson era
Richard P. McCormick
Paterson
Paul E. Johnson
Moving toward breaking the chains: Black New Jerseyans and the American Revolution
Giles R. Wright
Gettysburg
Bradley M. Gottfried
Newport and the nouveaux bourgeois
Charles E. Funnell
Mr. Justice Pitney and progressivism
Michal R. Belknap
The Applejack campaign of 1919: "as 'wet' as the Atlantic Ocean"
Warren E. Stickle III
"Summing up" and "Wednesday the thirteenth"
Jim Fisher
Frank Hague, Franklin Roosevelt, and the politics of the New Deal
Lyle W. Dorsett
The 1971 strike
Steve Golinj
The conscience of Congress
Amy Shapiro
Simple justice
David L. Kirp, John P. Dwyer, and Larry A. Rosenthal
