Camden County, New Jersey The Making of a Metropolitan Community, 1626-2000
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.06.2001
Verlag
Rutgers University PressSeitenzahl
240
Maße (L/B/H)
23/15.3/1.7 cm
Gewicht
417 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8135-2958-5
Dorwart traces the region's history from the earliest European settlers, who radically changed the local Native American culture and introduced black slavery, to the Revolutionary War, when the county's location directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia placed it at the crossroads of the American Revolution. He examines the county's conflicted roles during the Civil War, when the older agrarian population, which held traditional social and economic ties to the slave-owing South, clashed with the increasingly industrialized interests of the urban waterfront, which showed strong Unionist tendencies. Dorwart explores the increasing industrialization of the area and the various waves of European immigrants who came to work in the factories. He surveys the rise and fall of first Camden City, then of the suburbs, as both areas experienced population ebbs and flows. Finally, Dorwart looks at the revitalization efforts of 2000 when Camden County began efforts to reinvent the riverfront community where it all began.
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