New Jersey [electronic resource] : a history of the Garden State / edited by Maxine N. Lurie and Richard Veit.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: New Perspectives on New Jersey History / Marc Mappen -- Setting the Stage : Archaeology and the Delaware Indians, a 10,000 Year Odyssey / Richard Veit -- Colonial Period : The Complex and Contradictory Beginnings of a Mid-Atlantic Province / Maxine N. Lurie -- Revolution and Confederation Period : New Jersey at the Cross Roads / John Fea -- New Jersey in the Early Republic / Graham Russell Gao Hodges -- New Jersey in the Jacksonian Era, 1820-1850 / Michael Birkner -- Civil War and Reconstruction : State and Nation Divided / Larry Greene -- The Garden State Becomes an Industrial Power : New Jersey in the Late Nineteenth Century / Paul Israel -- The Progressive Era / Brian Greenberg -- Depression and War / G. Kurt Piehler -- Suburbanization and Decline of the Cities : Toward an Uncertain Future / Howard Gillette, Jr.

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