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How Newark became Newark : the rise, fall, and rebirth of an American city / Brad R. Tuttle.

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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. I...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Tuttle, Brad R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rivergate Books, ©2009.
Subjects:
Newark (N.J.) > History.
Newark (N.J.) > Social conditions.
Newark (N.J.) > Economic conditions.
Industrialization > New Jersey > Newark > History.
Social change > New Jersey > Newark > History.
Urban renewal > New Jersey > Newark > History.
Economic history.
Industrialization.
Social change.
Social conditions
Urban renewal.
New Jersey > Newark.
History.
Table of 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.

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