Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Michigan Living - Motor News
Author: Michigan Living - Motor News
Author: New Serial Titles
Author: 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.
Tending a Comfortable Wilderness
Author: Eric MacDonaldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A $500 House in Detroit
Author: Drew PhilpPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 147679801X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it—and his new neighborhood—to its original glory in this “deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meaning and community out of the fallen…A standout” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class Michigan family, decides to live where he can make a difference. He sets his sights on Detroit, the failed metropolis of abandoned buildings, widespread poverty, and rampant crime. Arriving with no job, no friends, and no money, Philp buys a ramshackle house for five hundred dollars in the east side neighborhood known as Poletown. The roomy Queen Anne he now owns is little more than a clapboard shell on a crumbling brick foundation, missing windows, heat, water, electricity, and a functional roof. A $500 House in Detroit is Philp’s raw and earnest account of rebuilding everything but the frame of his house, nail by nail and room by room. “Philp is a great storyteller…[and his] engrossing” (Booklist) tale is also of a young man finding his footing in the city, the country, and his own generation. We witness his concept of Detroit shift, expand, and evolve as his plan to save the city gives way to a life forged from political meaning, personal connection, and collective purpose. As he assimilates into the community of Detroiters around him, Philp guides readers through the city’s vibrant history and engages in urgent conversations about gentrification, racial tensions, and class warfare. Part social history, part brash generational statement, part comeback story, A $500 House in Detroit “shines [in its depiction of] the ‘radical neighborliness’ of ordinary people in desperate circumstances” (Publishers Weekly). This is an unforgettable, intimate account of the tentative revival of an American city and a glimpse at a new way forward for generations to come.
Transportation
Author: Tourism USA
Author: University of MissouriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tourism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Amish Struggle with Modernity
Author: Donald B. KraybillPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9780874516845
Category : Amish
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A distinctive American subculture responds to the forces of social change
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