{"product_id":"new-jerseys-natures-raechel-lutz-9781978836426","title":"New Jersey's Natures: Environmental Histories of the Garden State","description":"\u003ci\u003eNew Jersey's Natures\u003c\/i\u003e takes up the challenge of expanding academic and popular conceptions of New Jersey and its landscapes through the lens of environmental history. Scholars' essays showcase the ways in which nature is integral to understandings of the state and its past as well as its future. These essays show that New Jersey should no longer solely be known as a place where pollution and suburbanization run amok, but rather a place where history happens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The contributors investigate how nature and history are intertwined within this small but mighty state, covering topics from the colonial period to the present across North, South, and Central Jersey. They investigate natural features like the Delaware River and Bay, the Pinelands, and the unforgettable Jersey Shore. In this book you will find: indigenous Americans making meaning as settlers threaten their ways of life, Governor William Livingston considering Central Jersey's features as he fights in the American Revolution, farmers building the state's industrial agriculture, a foreign diplomat planting an arboretum, squatters in the swampy Meadowlands subverting social and economic norms, activists fighting for parks, forests, and beaches across two centuries, and much more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raechel Lutz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978836422\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978836426\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Raechel Lutz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47427346137343,"sku":"9781978836426","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/new-jerseys-natures-raechel-lutz-9781978836426","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}