The American Revolution in New Jersey

Where the Battlefront Meets the Home Front
Herausgeber: Gigantino, James J

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Produktbeschreibung

Battles were fought in many colonies during the American Revolution, but New Jersey was home to more sustained and intense fighting over a longer period of time. The nine essays in The American Revolution in New Jersey, depict the many challenges New Jersey residents faced at the intersection of the front lines and the home front.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780813571911
• ISBN-10: 081357191X
• Artikelnr.: 41752771

Autorenporträt

James J. Gigantino II

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
 
Part I A Revolutionary Experience
 
Chapter 1 A Disproportionate Burden on the Willing
Chapter 2 “Most Boundless Avarice”: Illegal Trade in Revolutionary Essex
Chapter 3 Blasting, Scraping, and Scavenging: Iron and Salt Production in
Revolutionary New Jersey
Chapter 4 A Nest of Tories: The American-versus-American Battle of Fort
Lee, 1781
Chapter 5 Rochambeau in New Jersey: The Good French Ally
 
Part II: The Impact of the Revolutionary Experience
 
Chapter 6 Destitute of Almost Everything to Support Life: The Acquisition
and Loss of Wealth in Revolutionary Monmouth County, New Jersey
Chapter 7 Discharging Their Duty: Salem Quakers and Slavery, 1730–1780
Chapter 8 Slavery, Abolition, and African Americans in New Jersey’s
American Revolution
Chapter 9 A Loyalist Homestead in a World Turned Upside Down
 
Notes on Contributors
Index