Michigan A History of the Great Lakes State.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rubenstein, Bruce A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Michigan: A History of the Great Lakes State
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Original Michiganians
  • The Three Fires
  • Effects of White Contact
  • Effects of Assimilation
  • Indians in Modern Michigan
  • For Further Reading
  • 2 The New Acadia
  • Samuel de Champlain
  • Missionaries and their Activities
  • The Crown Takes Control
  • Jean Talon-"The Great Intendant"
  • Talon and the West
  • The Revival of Missionary Activity
  • Père Marquette
  • La Salle and Frontenac
  • Cadillac and Frontenac
  • End of the French Empire
  • For Further Reading
  • 3 Under the Union Jack
  • Pontiac's Uprising
  • Proclamation of 1763
  • Michilimackinac and Major Robert Rogers
  • The Quebec Act and the American Revolution
  • For Further Reading
  • 4 Wilderness Politics and Economics
  • The War of 1812
  • The Continuing British Threat
  • The American Fur Company
  • Toledo and Statehood
  • For Further Reading
  • 5 Challenges of Statehood
  • Internal Improvements
  • The Copper Kingdom
  • The Ontonagon Boulder
  • Iron Mining
  • Transportation
  • The Sault Ste. Marie Canal
  • A New Capital
  • The Constitution of 1850
  • A New Look
  • For Further Reading
  • 6 Decade of Turmoil
  • Evils of "Old John Barleycorn"
  • Bastion of Free Men
  • King of the Beaver Islands
  • Under the Oaks
  • For Further Reading
  • 7 Defense of the Nation
  • War Politics
  • The Struggle for Freedom
  • Life and Labor During the War
  • For Further Reading
  • 8 Radicals and Reformers
  • Black Suffrage Agitation
  • The Quest for Women's Suffrage
  • Senatorial Contests of 1869 and 1871
  • The Liberal Republican Movement
  • The Campaign of 1874
  • Zachariah Chandler: Down but Not Out
  • From Chandler to Pingree
  • The Pingree Era
  • For Further Reading
  • 9 Early Ethnic Contributions
  • Michigan and Immigration Encouragement
  • Germans
  • Canadiens and Canadians
  • Dutch
  • Cornish and Irish
  • Scandinavians
  • The New Immigration
  • For Further Reading
  • 10 Grain, Grangers, and Conservation
  • Climate and Soil
  • Effects of the Civil War
  • The Patrons of Husbandry
  • Kellogg and Post
  • Agriculture in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries
  • Waste of Wildlife
  • For Further Reading
  • 11 Development of Intellectual Maturity
  • School Laws and Financing
  • Teachers, Students, and the "Little Red Schoolhouse"
  • Higher Education
  • Women's Education
  • Special Education
  • Recent Educational Advances
  • Social and Cultural Enrichment
  • For Further Reading
  • 12 Wood and Rails
  • Finding the Timber
  • Cutting and Milling
  • Fire
  • Nature or Money
  • Timber in Modern Michigan
  • Riding the Rails
  • The Great Railroad Conspiracy
  • The Golden Age of Railroads
  • Upper Peninsula Railroads
  • Decline of the Railroads
  • For Further Reading
  • 13 The World of Wheels
  • Olds' "Mobile"
  • Henry and His "Lizzie"
  • Ford and Society
  • Growth of an Industrial Giant
  • Chrysler and American Motors

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