| Description |
1 online resource (x, 339 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Prologue: Pride in Newark: A 300th Anniversary and a City on the Brink; Part I: Rise; Chapter 1: Corporation: Sheltered Puritan Village to Teeming Industrial Hub; Chapter 2: Politics to the Dogs: Southern Sympathy During the Civil War; Chapter 3: Greater Newark: A Metropolis Blooms with the Dawn of the Twentieth Century; Part II: Fall; Chapter 4: Dead Weight: Prohibition, Politics, and the Growth of Organized Crime; Chapter 5: The Slums of Ten Years from Now: A City Transformed through Postwar Urban Renewal |
| Summary |
For the first time in forty years, the story of one of America's most maligned cities is told in all its grit and glory. With its open-armed embrace of manufacturing, Newark, New Jersey, rode the Industrial Revolution to great prominence and wealth that lasted well into the twentieth century. In the postwar years, however, Newark experienced a perfect storm of urban troubles--political corruption, industrial abandonment, white flight, racial conflict, crime, poverty. Cities across the United States found themselves in similar predicaments, yet Newark stands out as an exceptional case. Its saga |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-324) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Industrialization -- New Jersey -- Newark -- History
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Social change -- New Jersey -- Newark -- History
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Urban renewal -- New Jersey -- Newark -- History
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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Economic history
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Industrialization
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Social change
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Social conditions
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Urban renewal
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| SUBJECT |
Newark (N.J.) -- History
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Newark (N.J.) -- Social conditions
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Newark (N.J.) -- Economic conditions
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| Subject |
New Jersey -- Newark
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813546568 |
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0813546567 |
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1282078550 |
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9781282078550 |
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9786612078552 |
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6612078553 |
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