Michigan : a history of explorers, entrepreneurs, and everyday people

Rosentreter, Roger L. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780472071906 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0472071904 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780472051908 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0472051903 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780472028870 (e-book)
ISBN: 0472028871 (e-book)
Physical Description: print
xi, 436 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

First residents -- The French presence -- The British take control -- Michigan becomes American -- Settling the "land of ills" -- Quest for statehood -- Building a state -- The fight against slavery -- The Civil War -- Logging the forests -- Mining Michigan -- Turn of the century -- Birth of the automobile -- World War I -- The raucous twenties -- The Great Depression and growth of labor -- World War II -- Postwar Michigan and the turbulent 1960s -- 1970s and beyond.