A New Jersey Anthology

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Maxine N. Lurie
Rutgers University Press, Jan 27, 2010 - History - 500 pages
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, Patricia U. Bonomi, Lyle W. Dorsett, John P. Dwyer, Jim Fisher, Charles E. Funnell, Steve Golin, Bradley M. Gottfried, Paul E. Johnson, David L. Kirp, Mark Edward Lender, Maxine N. Lurie, Richard P. McCormick, Mary R. Murrin, Larry A. Rosenthal, Amy Shapiro, Warren E. Stickle III, Lorraine E. Williams, Giles R. Wright
 

Contents

Mr Justice Pitney and Progressivism
10
Maxine N Lurie
37
Origins and Patterns of Agrarian Unrest
56
New Jersey and the Two Constitutions
121
Party Formation in New Jersey in the Jackson
145
The Persistence of Slavery and Involuntary
187
The Political Front in Civil War New Jersey
209
Newport of the Nouveaux Bourgeois
223
Michal R Belknap
267
Or How the Paterson Police
317
Frank Hague Franklin Roosevelt
393
Radburn
411
Index
485
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MAXINE N. LURIE is a professor of history at Seton Hall University. She is the author of a number of articles and book chapters on early American and New Jersey history, and, in addition to the first edition of this anthology, she is the coeditor of the Encyclopedia of New Jersey and Mapping New Jersey (All Rutgers University Press).

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