Overview

Mapping New Jersey is the first interpretive atlas of the state in more than one hundred years. New Jersey, small in size with only 4.8 million acres, has a long and complex background. Its past is filled with paradoxes and contradictionsùan agricultural economy for most of its history, New Jersey was also one of the earliest states to turn to manufacturing and chemical research. Today, still championing itself as the ""Garden State,"" New Jersey claims both the highest population density in the country and the largest number of hazardous waste sites. Many see an asphalt oasis, from the New Jersey Turnpike to the Garden State Parkway, with cities that sprawl into adjacent suburbs. Yet, after hundreds of years, large areas of New Jersey remain home to horse farms, cornfields, orchards, nurseries, blueberry bushes, and cranberry bogs.Tracing the changes in environment, land use patterns, demography, transportation, economy, and politics over the course of many centuries, Mapping New Jerseyilluminates the state's transformation from a simple agricultural society to a post-industrial and culturally diverse place inhabited by more people per acre than anywhere else in the country. An innovator in transportation, from railroads to traffic circles to aviation, New Jersey from its beginnings was a ""corridor"" state, with a dense Native American trail system once crisscrossed on foot, country roads traveled by armies of the American Revolution, and, lately, the rolling wheels of many sedans, SUVs, hybrids, public and commercial vehicles, and freight. Early to industrialize, it also served as the headquarters for Thomas Edison and the development of the modern American economy. Small in territory and crowded with people, the state works to recycle garbage and, at the same time, best utilize and preserve its land. New Jersey has been depicted in useful and quite stunning historical maps, many of the best included in Mapping New Jerseyùcrude maps drawn by sixteenth-century navigators; complex and beautifully decorated pieces created by early Dutch cartographers; land maps plotted by seventeenth-century English settlement surveyors; examples of the nineteenth century's scientific revolution in map making that helped locate topography and important mineral resources; detailed insurance maps that correct London map maker William Faden's 1777-78 classic rendering of the state; and aerial photos, remote sensing, and global positioning system maps generated through twenty-first-century technology breakthroughs in cartography. Integrating new maps, graphs, and diagrams unavailable through ordinary research or Internet searches, Mapping New Jersey is divided into six topical chapters, each accompanied by an introduction and overview telling the story of the state's past and detailing its diversity. Mapping New Jersey, dramatically bold and in full color, travels where New Jersey has gone and the rest of the nation is likely to follow.

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Author:   Maxine N. Lurie ,  Peter O. Wacker ,  Michael Siegel
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rivergate Books
Dimensions:   Width: 27.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 35.60cm
Weight:   2.240kg
ISBN:  

9780813545851

ISBN 10:   0813545854
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   11 September 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction, by Maxine N. Lurie and Peter O. Wacker Chapter 1: Environment Introduction: David A. Robinson Landforms: Charles A. Stansfield Soils: John C. F. Tedrow and Peter O. Wacker Weather and Climate of New Jersey:  David A. Robinson Natural Hazards: James K. Mitchell Coastal Change: Thomas O. Herrington Vegetation and Wildlife:, Rick Lathrop Water Resources: Robert M. Hordon Chapter 2: Land Use Introduction: Harbans Singh Settlement Patterns: Peter O. Wacker The Megapolitan Transformation: Michael H. Ebner Planned and Utopian Communities: Maxine N. Lurie Dynamics of New Jersey Agriculture: Robert M. Goodman and Arthur R. Brown, Jr. Land Renewal: Superfund Sites, Brownfields, and Grayfields, Michael Greenberg Vacant Buildable Land: Henry J. Mayer Chapter 3: Demography Introduction, Briavel Holcomb Indians, Lorraine Williams African Americans, Giles R. Wright Religious Diversity, Frank L. Greenagel Age and Gender, Briavel Holcomb Health and Medicine, Karen Reeds Education, David Hespe Chapter 4: Transportation Introduction: Peter O. Wacker The Era of Straight Roads: Robert Craig Railroads: John T. Cunningham The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey: Jameson W. Doig Journey to Work (and Elsewhere): Peter O. Wacker Chapter 5: The Economy Introduction: James W. Hughes and Joseph J. Seneca Extractive Industries: Richard Veit Fishing: Bonnie J. McCay Clay, Brick, and Glass: Richard Veit Early Milling and Water Power: Richard W. Hunter Tourism, Leisure, Hospitality in New Jersey: Briavel Holcomb Chapter 6: History and Politics Introduction: Joseph R. Marbach New Jersey's Boundaries: Maxine N. Lurie Military History: Mark Edward Lender Women in New Jersey Politics: Debbie Walsh Land as Politics and the Politics of Land: Maxine N. Lurie

Reviews

As a life-long resident, I am a big fan of New Jersey history, and can't get enough of it. If you are like me, you'll love this big, coffee-table-sized book. --Cliff Moore Montgomery News (12/01/2009)

Visually stunning. Siegel's creations for Mapping New Jersey show everything from state wetlands, forests, farmland and major rivers to railroads in 1860, Cold War missile sites, median home values and the number of languages (186) spoken in New Jersey schools. --Peter Genovese Star-Ledger (12/27/2009) As a life-long resident, I am a big fan of New Jersey history, and can't get enough of it. If you are like me, you'll love this big, coffee-table-sized book. --Cliff Moore Montgomery News (12/01/2009) Mapping New Jersey is wonderful, exquisite, spectacular ... far beyond my high expectations! --David A. Robinson Chairman, department of geography, Rutgers University (01/01/2099)

Author Information

MAXINE N. LURIE is a professor of history at Seton Hall University. She is the author of a number of articles and book chapters primarily on early American and New Jersey history, the editor of A New Jersey Anthology, and the coeditor of the Encyclopedia of New Jersey (both Rutgers University Press). PETER O. WACKER, professor emeritus of geography at Rutgers University, is the author of The Musconetcong Valley of New Jersey: A Historical Geography; Land and People: A Cultural Geography of Preindustrial New Jersey Origins and Settlement Patterns; and the coauthor of Land Use in Early New Jersey: A Historical Geography (Rutgers University Press). MICHAEL SIEGEL is the staff cartographer and teacher in the Rutgers University geography department.

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