Made in Newark: Cultivating Industrial Arts and Civic Identity in the Progressive Era

by Ezra Shales and Professor Ezra Shales

What does it mean to turn the public library or museum into a civic forum? Made in Newark describes a turbulent industrial city at the dawn of the twentieth century and the ways it inspired the library's outspoken director, John Cotton Dana, to collaborate with industrialists, social workers, educators, and New Women.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813547695
• ISBN13: 9780813547695
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Rivergate Books
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.3"