Frontier seaport : Detroit's transformation into an Atlantic entrepôt / Catherine Cangany.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:American beginnings, 1500-1900.
Main Author: Cangany, Catherine (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Series:American beginnings, 1500-1900.
Subjects:
Detroit (Mich.) > History.
Detroit (Mich.) > Commerce > History.
Physical Description:xi, 272 pages : illustrations, maps.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "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".