Maxine N Lurie, Richard F Veit

Envisioning New Jersey

An Illustrated History of the Garden State

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Produktbeschreibung

See New Jersey history as you read about it! Envisioning New Jersey brings together 650 spectacular images that illuminate the course of the state's history, from prehistoric times to the present. Readers may think they know New Jersey's history, but the visual record presented here dramatically deepens and enriches that knowledge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Altersempfehlung: ab 15 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 310mm x 229mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1855g
• ISBN-13: 9780813569574
• ISBN-10: 0813569575
• Artikelnr.: 44139470

Autorenporträt

MAXINE N. LURIE is professor emerita of history at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, and chairs the New Jersey Historical Commission. She previously collaborated with Richard Veit on New Jersey: A History of the Garden State, and she is the coeditor of The Encyclopedia of New Jersey and Mapping New Jersey, as well as the editor of two editions of A New Jersey Anthology (all by Rutgers University Press).    RICHARD F. VEIT is a professor of anthropology and chair of the department of history and anthropology at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. He is the author of Digging New Jersey’s Past and coauthor of New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones: History in the Landscape, as well as coeditor of New Jersey: A History of the Garden State (with Lurie, all by Rutgers University Press).  

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 Beginnings: Archaeology and Indians, the Long Journey
2 The Colonial Period: Early New Jersey
3 The American Revolution and Confederation Period
4 New Jersey in the Early Republic
5 The Jacksonian Era, 1820–1850
6 Civil War and Reconstruction
7 Industrialization, Immigration, and Urbanization: The Post–Civil War
Years
8 Immigration, the Progressive Era, and World War I
9 The Great Depression and World War II
10 Postwar New Jersey
Acknowledgments
Index