Description |
1 online resource (301 pages) |
Contents |
Preface; Chapter 1: Colonial Cranbury; Chapter 2: The Making of a Classic Nineteenth-Century Village; Chapter 3: A New Township and an Expanding Market; Chapter 4: Remembering the Turn of the Century; Chapter 5: Depression, War, and Recovery; Chapter 6: Meeting New Challenges; Chapter 7: Saving a Historic Village, Preserving Its Farmland; Chapter 8: Confronting the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 9: Cranbury, "One of America's Most Beautiful Small Towns"; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes; Sources and Suggested Reading; Index; About the Author |
Summary |
One of the oldest towns in New Jersey, Cranbury has a long and noteworthy history that is in part distinctive and in part broadly representative of larger themes in the development of the state and the nation. In this beautifully illustrated book sponsored by Cranbury Landmarks, Inc., historian John Whiteclay Chambers II links the narrative of this remarkable town to contemporary debates about suburbanization and urban planning |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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SUBJECT |
Cranbury (N.J. : Township) -- History
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Subject |
New Jersey -- Cranbury (Township)
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780813553580 |
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081355358X |
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