Parkour and the City: Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport. By Jeffrey L. Kidder. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2017. Pp. 256. $99.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

2019 ◽  
Vol 124 (4) ◽  
pp. 1311-1313
Author(s):  
Kevin Young
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
The City

scholarly journals History and Land Use Change: The New Brunswick Copper Mining and Processing Complex, Rutgers University, and Johnson & Johnson

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Richard L. Porter
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Copper Mining ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Mine Shaft ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This paper is the end result of a historical study of the New Brunswick Copper Mining and Processing Complex, which was formerly sited within what is now the City of New Brunswick in Middlesex County, New Jersey.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">The New Brunswick Copper Mining and Processing Complex was active during the final decades of the colonial period and included both extractive and water-powered industrial components that were focused within the area bounded on the east by the Raritan River, north by Seminary Place, west by College Avenue, and south by Hamilton Street/Johnson Drive.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">This area was redeveloped during the 19</span><sup><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: medium;"> and 20</span><sup><span style="font-size: small;">th</span></sup><span style="font-size: medium;"> centuries, with the lands formerly utilized for the mining and processing of copper eventually coming to be occupied by Rutgers University and Johnson &amp; Johnson.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">The discovery of a mine shaft formerly associated with this early copper mining and processing complex during the demolition of a building within the Johnson &amp; Johnson Corporate Headquarters led to the commissioning of this study by Johnson &amp; Johnson.</span><span style="font-size: medium;">  </span><span style="font-size: medium;">This paper provides a discussion of the history of the New Brunswick Copper Mining and Processing Complex and of the subsequent changing land uses that ultimately led to the current presence of Rutgers University and Johnson &amp; Johnson.</span></span></p>

Book Reviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-95
Author(s):  
Ulrike Flader ◽  
Vera Ecarius-Kelly ◽  
Clemence SCALBERT-YÜCEL ◽  
Michael M. Gunter ◽  
Tozun Bahcheli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Brunswick ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
Ashgate Publishing ◽  
Kurdish Question ◽  
Newcastle Upon Tyne

Cengiz Gunes and Welat Zeydanlıoğlu (eds.), The Kurdish Question in Turkey: New Perspectives on Violence, Representation and Reconciliation, London: Routledge, 2014, 288 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-415-83015-7).Almas Heshmati and Nabaz T. Khayyat, Socio-Economic Impacts of Landmines in Southern Kurdistan, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, 341 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-4438-4198-6).Estelle Amy de la Bretèque, Paroles Mélodisées: Récits épiques et lamentations chez les Yézidis d’Arménie (Melodised speech. Heroic songs and laments among the Yezidis of Armenia), Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2013, 230pp., (ISBN: 978-2-8124-0787-1).Diane E. King, Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq, New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2014. 286 pp., (ISBN: 9780813563534).Michael M. Gunter and Mohammed M.A. Ahmed (eds.), The Kurdish Spring: Geopolitical Changes and the Kurds, Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2013, 344 pp., (ISBN: 978-1568592725).Derya Bayır, Minorities and Nationalism in Turkish Law, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing House, 2013, 314 pp., (ISBN: 9781409420071).

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