Author: George Newman FullerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Economic and Social Beginnings of Michigan
Author: George Newman FullerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Michigan's Lumbertowns
Author: Jeremy W. KilarPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814320730
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Michigan's foremost lumbertowns, flourishing urban industrial centers in the late 19th century, faced economic calamity with the depletion of timber supplies by the end of the century. Turning to their own resources and reflecting individual cultural identities, Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon developed dissimilar strategies to sustain their urban industrial status. This study is a comprehensive history of these lumbertowns from their inception as frontier settlements to their emergence as reshaped industrial centers. Primarily an examination of the role of the entrepreneur in urban economic development, Michigan Lumbertowns considers the extent to which the entrepreneurial approach was influenced by each city's cultural-ethnic construct and its social history. More than a narrative history, it is a study of violence, business, and social change.
Michigan
Author: Willis F. DunbarPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 1467435171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
This standard textbook on Michigan history covers the entire scope of the Wolverine State's historical record -- from when humankind first arrived in the area around 9,000 B.C. up to 1995. This third revised edition of Michigan also examines events since 1980 and draws on new studies to expand and improve its coverage of various ethnic groups, recent political developments, labor and business, and many other topics. Includes photographs, maps, and charts.
Detroit
Author: Scott MartellePublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613730691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Detroit was established as a French settlement three-quarters of a century before the founding of this nation. A remote outpost built to protect trapping interests, it grew as agriculture expanded on the new frontier. Its industry leapt forward with the completion of the Erie Canal, which opened up the Great Lakes to the East Coast. Surrounded by untapped natural resources, Detroit turned iron into stoves and railcars, and eventually cars by the millions. This vibrant commercial hub attracted businessmen and labor organizers, European immigrants and African Americans from the rural South. At its heyday in the 1950s and ’60s, one in six American jobs were connected to the auto industry and Detroit. And then the bottom fell out. Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America’s great cities, and one of the nation’s greatest urban failures. It seeks to explain how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse resulted from a confluence of public policies, private industry decisions, and deep, thick seams of racism. This updated paperback edition includes recent developments under Michigan’s Emergency Manager law. And it raises the question: when we look at modern-day Detroit, are we looking at the ghost of America’s industrial past or its future? Scott Martelle is the author of The Fear Within and Blood Passion and is a professional journalist who has written for the Detroit News, the Los Angeles Times, the Rochester Times-Union, and more.
Introduction to the American Official Sources for the Economic and Social History of the World War
Author: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
"List of editors, publishers and plan of series": 18 p. at end. Includes bibliographies.
Economic and Social History of the World War: Leland, W.G. Introduction to the American official sources for the economic and social history of the world war. 1926
Author: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and HistoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Michigan Genealogy
Author: Carol McGinnisPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
This is one of the finest statewide sourcebooks ever published, a remarkable compilation of sources and resources that are available to help researchers find their Michigan ancestors. It identifies records on the state and regional level and then the county level, providing details of vital records, court and land records, military records, newspapers, and census records, as well as the holdings of the various societies and institutions whose resources and facilities support the special needs of the genealogist. County-by-county, it lists the names, addresses, websites, e-mail addresses, and hours of business of libraries, archives, genealogical and historical societies, courthouses, and other record repositories; describes their manuscripts and record collections; highlights their special holdings; and provides details regarding queries, searches, and restrictions on the use of their records.
Michigan History
Author: A Bibliography of the History of Agriculture in the United States
Author: Everett Eugene EdwardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Tocqueville in America
Author: George Wilson PiersonPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801855061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1764
Book Description
Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, traveled the breadth of America to inquire into the future of French society as revolutionary upheaval gave way to a representative government similar to America's. This text reconstructs from their diaries and letters and newspaper accounts their nine-month tour and evolving analysis of American society.