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Frontier Seaport : : Detroit's Transformation Into an Atlantic Entrepôt

Cangany, Catherine. Book - 2014 977.434 Ca, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / Michigan / Cangany, Catherine 2 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 5 out of 5

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Call Number: 977.434 Ca, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / Michigan / Cangany, Catherine
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"The appearance of the settlement is very smiling" -- "In time this city will become conspicuous": the development of non-fur-trade commerce -- "The inhabitants are well supplied with provisions of every description" -- "Altogether preferable to shoes": the fashioning of moccasins -- "Detroit, politically . . . remains . . . an isolated moral mass" -- "Advisable to improve the arrangement of the town": rebuilding after the great fire of 1805 -- "Sinister conduct": the pervasion of staples smuggling -- Epilogue: "Exceedingly well situated for a commercial port".

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American beginnings, 1500-1900.

PUBLISHED
London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: xi, 272 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780226096704
022609670X

SUBJECTS
Detroit (Mich.) -- History.
Detroit (Mich.) -- History.