Author: George Reeser ProwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camden County (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
Book Description
The History of Camden County, New Jersey
Author: George Reeser ProwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camden County (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
Book Description
Camden County, New Jersey
Author: Jeffery M. DorwartPublisher: Springer Science & Business
ISBN: 9780813529585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
In this book, Jeffery M. Dorwart chronicles more than three centuries of Camden County history. He takes readers on a journey, from the earliest days as a Native American settlement, to the county's important roles in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, Camden City's booms and busts, the county's increasing suburbanization, and concluding with current inner-city revitalization efforts. Dorwart details how the earliest European settlers radically changed the local Native American culture and introduced black slavery. In the Revolutionary War, the county's location directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia placed it at the crossroads of the American Revolution. Dorwart 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. He explores the changing demographics of the area as waves of European immigrants 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.
Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey ...
Author: Francis Bazley LeePublisher:
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Camden After the Fall
Author: Howard Gillette, Jr.Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205278
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
What prevents cities whose economies have been devastated by the flight of human and monetary capital from returning to self-sufficiency? Looking at the cumulative effects of urban decline in the classic post-industrial city of Camden, New Jersey, historian Howard Gillette, Jr., probes the interaction of politics, economic restructuring, and racial bias to evaluate contemporary efforts at revitalization. In a sweeping analysis, Gillette identifies a number of related factors to explain this phenomenon, including the corrosive effects of concentrated poverty, environmental injustice, and a political bias that favors suburban amenity over urban reconstruction. Challenging popular perceptions that poor people are responsible for the untenable living conditions in which they find themselves, Gillette reveals how the effects of political decisions made over the past half century have combined with structural inequities to sustain and prolong a city's impoverishment. Even the most admirable efforts to rebuild neighborhoods through community development and the reinvention of downtowns as tourist destinations are inadequate solutions, Gillette argues. He maintains that only a concerted regional planning response—in which a city and suburbs cooperate—is capable of achieving true revitalization. Though such a response is mandated in Camden as part of an unprecedented state intervention, its success is still not assured, given the legacy of outside antagonism to the city and its residents. Deeply researched and forcefully argued, Camden After the Fall chronicles the history of the post-industrial American city and points toward a sustained urban revitalization strategy for the twenty-first century.
The History of Cape May County, New Jersey
Author: Lewis Townsend StevensPublisher:
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Category : Cape May County (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Waterways of Camden County
Author: William R. FarrPublisher:
ISBN: 9780972587105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
HISTORY OF CAMDEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY
Author: GEORGE REESER. PROWELLPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033779347
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The History of Camden County, New Jersey
Author: George Reeser ProwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Camden County (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
Encyclopedia of New Jersey
Author: Maxine N. LuriePublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813533252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Everything you've ever wanted to know about the Garden State can now be found in one place. This encyclopaedia contains a wealth of information from New Jersey's prehistory to the present covering architecture, arts, biographies, commerce, arts, municipalities and much more.
Camden
Author: Cheryl L. BaisdenPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738544649
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Poet Walt Whitman proclaimed his adopted home of Camden, in its heyday, "the city invincible," a powerhouse of industrial might destined for greatness. Camden resurrects that fascinating era of invincibility through powerful images of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge construction; Cooper Hospital's nearly ill-fated founding; and the momentous birth of Campbell Soup Company, Victor Talking Machine Company/RCA, and New York Shipbuilding. Also included are images of Camden's neighborhoods, community life, and bustling downtown district, as well as the newsmakers and lawbreakers who defined the "biggest little city in the world."constants in our lives.