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Words That Make New Jersey History : A Primary Source Reader, revised and expanded edition /
This book is ideal for general readers who want to explore the primary sources of the state's past, and to U.S. history students at the high school and college levels.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rivergate Books,
2006.
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| Edición: | Expanded ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1."Between hope and fear" : a legend of the first Lenape encounter with Europeans
- 2."Draw the Indians to our service" : instructions for the director of New Netherland (1625)
- 3."Many eyes will be upon you" : a letter to West Jersey Quakers (1676)
- 4.Religious freedom in early New Jersey (1676/77, 1683)
- 5."Wealth circulates like the blood" : William Penn's account of the Delaware Indians (1683)
- 6.A broad path to walk in : Indian-white relations (1685)
- 7."Ample and happy livelihoods" : West Jersey in 1698
- 8.To the speediest improvement of the province : Queen Anne's instruction to Lord Cornbury (1702)
- 9."Lusty and well set" : runaway servants in the early eighteenth century
- 10."Too much indulged" : glimpses of slavery (1716-1763)
- 11."Died with the cancer" : a Puritan gravestone in Monmouth Country (730)
- 12.Fraudulent claims : the land riots of 1746
- 13.Sacred friendship : excerpts from the journal of Esther Edwards Burr (1754-1757)
- 14.A harmony of practice and principle : John Woolman objects to military service (1757)
- 15."Orderly and useful subjects" : the Brotherton Indian reservation (1759)
- 16.No texas without consent : New Jersey and the Stamp Act (1765)
- 17.Affectionate father, dutiful son : Benjamin and William Franklin and the coming of the American revolution
- 18."No fences left" : war-torn New Jersey (1777)
- 19."How terrible this Civil War raged" : the journal of Nicholas Collin (1778)
- 20.A state of substantial farmers : John Witherspoon's notes on New Jersey (c. 1785)
- 21."The slave of the state" : the petition of Negro prime for his freedom (1786)
- 22."Is this liberty?" : the petition of Rachel Wells (1786)
- 23.Liberty, a delusive dream : Abraham Clark on republicanism (1786)
- 24."A moral certainty of success" : the society for establishing using manufactures (1791)
- 25.A great export of cider : a traveler's observations (1794)
- 26.Every child shall be free, but ... : the gradual abolition of slavery (1804)
- 27.A shoemaker, three plows, and an eagle (1806)
- 28."A foe in disguise is more dangerous than an open enemy" : an advocate of sending African Americans to Africa (1824)
- 29."Fathers, protectors, and friends" : the Lenape's last appeal (1832)
- 30."No incorporations" : citizens oppose private charters for new businesses (1836)
- 31."The ornament of youth" : a schoolgirl's needlework sampler (c. 1837)
- 32."Hearts which yearn for Africa"? : Samuel Cornish rejects the colonization plan (1840)
- 33.The white flag of temperance : a song (1842)
- 34.A view of Dover, c. 1844
- 35."Shall New Jersey be last?" : Dorothea Dix calls for a hospital of the mentally ill (1845)
- 36.Religion and republicanism : New Jersey's fugitive slave policy (c. 1846)
- 37."Learning cannot be disunited from religion" : a latter on the public school system (1848)
- 38."Germans assaulted indiscriminately" : ethnic violence in Hoboken (1851)
- 39."The union in jeopardy" : a fourth of July speech (1851)
- 40."Escaped from the confinement of the needle" : the North American Phalanx (1853-1855)
- 41."Equality, liberty, ad prosperity" : the workingmen's Union of Trenton (1858)
- 42.The sense of justice in all good men : feminist tax resistance (1858)
- 43."Join our destiny with the south" : former governor price champions the confederacy (1861)
- 44."Brave volunteers of New Jersey" : a Civil War song (1861)
- 45.The devil in their hearts : a republican congressional candidate (1862)
- 46.Fight secessionism in the field, abolitionism at the ballot box : the Democratic Party (1862)
- 47.The union is the only guarantee : soldiers protest the peace resolutions (1863)
- 48.Organized and armed to resist the draft (1863)
- 49.Black troops performed with dignity : General Sickles on postwar New Jersey (1865)
- 50.Vacation at Long Branch (1869)
- 51."First-class female" or "inferior male" : hiring women teachers (1870)
- 52.Workman today, capitalist tomorrow : a vision of industrial harmony (1872)
- 53.Wan faces and stunted minds : child labor (1884)
- 54.Denied the rights of citizens : conditions at Oxford furnace (1892)
- 55."Rare opportunities" : the Trenton Business College (1893)
- 56.The peach exchange in Pittstown (1901)
- 57."A square deal" : progressives and taxes (c. 1905)
- 58."A traitor state" : raking New Jersey muck (1906)
- 59."The foreman's vulgar advances" : sexual harassment in Vineland (1907)
- 60."A menace and detriment" : farmers against the automobile (1908)
- 61.Put fairness in the saddle again : Governor Wilson's inaugural address (1911)
- 62."Fierce every way" : the Paterson Silk Mills (1913)
- 63."The social order of an American town" : Randolph Bourne on Bloomfield (1913)
- 64.Vote for the woman suffrage amendment (c. 1915)
- 65.These foreigners must be educated : Americanizing the immigrant (1916)
- 66."A little patriotic affair" : New Brunswick during World War I (1917-1918)
- 67.A way of life denied at home : race relations during World War I (1918)
- 68.Nothing for the "joys of living" : the cost of living (1919)
- 69.Strikebreaker or color-barrier breaker? : race and the labor movement (1923)
- 70.To protect their health and morals : regulating female employment (1923)
- 71."How New Jersey laws discriminate against women" : the national woman's party in New Jersey (1925)
- 72."Let me know where I can get some socialist literature" : criticism of President Hoover (1931)
- 73.Carry on the fight : a labor union's vision (1935)
- 74.The man on relief is similar to his neighbor : welfare during the Great Depression (1936)
- 75.Ben Shahn's Jersey homesteads mural (1937)
- 76.Forced on relief again : a Newark woman on welfare (1939)
- 77.We saved their chestnuts once : republican congressmen on war in Europe (1939)
- 78."Our little colored family" : a black woman trying to get a job (1940)
- 79.Away from the democratic ideal : segregation in the schools (1941)
- 80."Can people be heroic without knowing it?" : women in defense plants (1943)
- 81."Gosh darn this war" : correspondence between a young woman and her husband at war (1943-1944)
- 82.Church, fire brigade, and children : Cranbury Township (1956)
- 83.Income distribution (c. 1960)
- 84."Don't be a dishwasher!" : promoting electrical appliances (1963)
- 85.New ways on top of old patterns : Willingboro in the early 1960s
- 86.The summer of 1967 : the Newark riots
- 87.Actions or appearances? : radical feminists protest Miss America (1968)
- 88.Opening Pandora's box? : a debate on environmental policy (1972)
- 89.Constitutional rights cannot wait for political consensus : the Supreme Court addresses the housing problem (1983)
- 90.Troubled times : Bruce Springsteen describes a declining factory town (1984)
- 91.Abbot v. Burke, 4 (1997)
- 92.Sprawl (2002)
- 93."The boom was a story about someone else" : the New Jersey economy in the 1990s (2002).