Frontier seaport : Detroit's transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt /

Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles notwithstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the eighteenth century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. Its proxim...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cangany, Catherine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Colección:American beginnings, 1500-1900.
Temas:
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Commerce.
Detroit (Mich.) > History.
Detroit (Mich.) > Commerce > History.
Michigan > Detroit.
History.
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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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