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Frontier Seaport: Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt (American Beginnings, 1500-1900)
Catherine Cangany
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Description for Frontier Seaport: Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt (American Beginnings, 1500-1900)
Hardcover. Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles not withstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the 18th century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. This book details this seldom-discussed chapter of Detroit's history. Series: American Beginnings, 1500 - 1900. Num Pages: 288 pages, 19 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles not withstanding, 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 proximity to the West as well as its access to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River positioned this new metropolis at the intersection of the fur-rich frontier and the Atlantic trade routes. In Frontier Seaport, Catherine Cangany details this seldom-discussed chapter of Detroit's history. She argues that by the time of the American Revolution, Detroit ... Read more
Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles not withstanding, 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 proximity to the West as well as its access to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River positioned this new metropolis at the intersection of the fur-rich frontier and the Atlantic trade routes. In Frontier Seaport, Catherine Cangany details this seldom-discussed chapter of Detroit's history. She argues that by the time of the American Revolution, Detroit ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Series
American Beginnings, 1500 - 1900
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226096704
SKU
V9780226096704
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About Catherine Cangany
Catherine Cangany is assistant professor of history at the University of Notre Dame.
Reviews for Frontier Seaport: Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt (American Beginnings, 1500-1900)
"In this thoroughly researched and well-written study, Cangany shows how the people of late eighteenth-century Detroit participated fully in a vibrant Atlantic economy. Detroit's entrepreneurs-Native Americans as well as Europeans-developed exciting new trade goods such as moccasins that sustained a sophisticated level of commerce. Frontier Seaport is an impressive and challenging accomplishment." (T. H. Breen, author of Marketplace of Revolution)" ... Read more