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A New Jersey Anthology
Price: $32.95
Second Edition
Author:
Edited and with an Introduction by Maxine N. Lurie
Subject: Regional,
American
History
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4744-2
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4745-9
Pages: 496 pages with 18
photographs
Publication Date: May 2010
Praise
for A New Jersey Anthology
“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, social, women's, African American, Native American, and
labor history, the collection will appeal to the general reader and be
of enormous use to those teaching New Jersey history in schools and
universities.” —Paul G. E. Clemens, history department, Rutgers
University
Description:
An absolutely superb collection in
every aspect, the second edition of 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 Lurie's
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.
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.
Contributors:
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
About the Author:
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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