{"product_id":"a-new-jersey-anthology-paperback-softback-9780813547459","title":"A New Jersey Anthology (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813547459","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA New Jersey Anthology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMaxine N. Lurie (Edited by), Michal Belknap (Contributions by), Patricia Bonomi (Contributions by), Lyle Dorsett (Contributions by), John P. Dwyer (Contributions by), Steve Golin (Contributions by), Bradley M. Gottfried (Contributions by), Jim Fisher (Contributions by), Charles Funnell (Contributions by), Paul Johnson (Contributions by), David L. Kirp (Contributions by), Mark Edward Lender (Contributions by), Richard P. McCormick (Contributions by), Mary Murrin (Contributions by), Larry A. Rosenthal (Contributions by), Amy Shapiro (Contributions by), Warren Stickle (Contributions by), Lorraine Williams (Contributions by), Giles Wright (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813547459\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 January 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e500 pages, 18 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 3 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"This excellent collection of essays covers the sweep of New Jersey history from the colonial, proprietary era to the recent politics of Mount Laurel. It brings together some of the finest writing on the state, and raises questions relevant to major themes in American history more generally. Maxine Lurie has provided an excellent introductory essay to contextualize each piece in the collection, and each essay also comes with suggestions for further reading on the topic. With its broad coverage of political,\u003cbr\u003esocial, women's, African American, Native American, and labor history, the\u003cbr\u003ecollection will appeal to the general reader and be of enormous use to\u003cbr\u003ethose teaching New Jersey history in schools and universities.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Paul G. E. Clemens (history department, Rutgers University)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction by Maxine N. Lurie\u003cbr\u003e 1. New Jersey: The Unique Proprietary by Maxine N. Lurie\u003cbr\u003e 2. Origins and Patterns of Agrarian Unrest in New Jersey, 1735 to 1754 by Thomas L. Purvis\u003cbr\u003e 3. Declarations of Dependence: War and Inequality in Revolutionary New Jersey, 1776-1815 by Gregory Evans Dowd\u003cbr\u003e 4. New Jersey and the Two Constitutions by Mary R. Murrin\u003cbr\u003e 5. Party Formation in New Jersey in the Jackson Era by Richard P. McCormick\u003cbr\u003e 6. Feminism, Utopianism, and Domesticity: The Career of Rebecca Buffum Spring, 1811-1911 by Marie Marmo Mullaney\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Persistence of Slavery and Involuntary Servitude in a Free State (1685-1866) by Simeon F. Moss\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Political Front in Civil War New Jersey by Maurice Tandler\u003cbr\u003e 9. Newport of the Nouveaux Bourgeois by Charles E. Funnell\u003cbr\u003e 10. Mr. Justice Pitney and Progressivism by Michal R. Belknap\u003cbr\u003e 11. Bimson's Mistake: Or, How the Paterson Police Helped to Spread the 1913 Strike by Steve Golin\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Applejack Campaign of 1919: \"\u003cbr\u003eAs 'Wet' as the Atlantic Ocean\"\u003cbr\u003e by Warren E. Stickle III\u003cbr\u003e 13. Women Standing for Women: The Early Political Career of Mary T. Norton by Gary Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e 14. Frank Hague, Franklin Roosevelt and the Politics of the New Deal by Lyle W. Dorsett\u003cbr\u003e 15. Lessons in Land Use: Radburn and the Regional Planning Association of America by Danial Schaffer\u003cbr\u003e 16. The Beleaguered City as Promised Land: Blacks in Newark, 1917-1947 by Clement A. Price\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Political State of New Jersey: Conclusion by Gerald M. 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