A New Jersey Anthology

A New Jersey classic comes to life once more, and it's better than ever . . . "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 N. 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." -Paul G. E. Clemens, history department, Rutgers University Praise for the prior edition . . . "An absolutely superb collection in every aspect, this covers all of the chronological and topical bases with remarkable comprehensiveness. 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. . . . Lurie's illuminating headnotes for each article, which include not only shrewd interpretive insights but also bibliographical references, set this book significantly apart." -Douglas Greenberg, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University 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, the editor of the first edition of this anthology, and the coeditor of the Encyclopedia of New Jersey and Mapping New Jersey (all Rutgers University Press). Contents......Page 8 Preface......Page 10 Introduction: Brief Overview of New Jersey History......Page 14 1. New Jersey: The Unique Proprietary......Page 50 2. Lord Cornbury Redressed: The Governor and the Problem Portrait......Page 78 3. The "Cockpit" Reconsidered: Revolutionary New Jersey as a Miltary Theater......Page 92 4. Caught in the Middle: New Jersey's Indians and the American Revolution......Page 118 5. New Jersey and the Two Constitutions......Page 134 6. Party Formation in New Jersey in the Jackson Era......Page 156 7. Paterson......Page 172 8. Moving Toward Breaking the Chains: Black New Jerseyans and the American Revolution......Page 200 9. Gettysburg......Page 236 10. Newport of the Nouveaux Bourgeois......Page 256 11. Mr. Justice Pitney and Progressivism......Page 290 12. The Applejack Campaign of 1919: “As ‘Wet’ as the Atlantic Ocean”......Page 334 13. “Summing Up” and “Wednesday the Thirteenth”......Page 352 14. Frank Hague, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Politics of the New Deal......Page 372 15. The 1971 Strike......Page 388 16. The Conscience of Congress......Page 428 17. Simple Justice......Page 450 Index......Page 480 Annotation 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 Contains 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 labour struggles, land use and regional planning issues, Blacks in Newark, the current political state of New Jersey, and more.