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Book

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

Call Number

  • H 977.4 R8159 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2014.

Physical Description

xi, 436 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Michigan's first residents
  • The French presence
  • The British in Michigan
  • Michigan becomes American
  • Settling the "land of ills"
  • Quest for statehood
  • Reforms and internal improvements
  • The fight against slavery
  • The Civil War
  • Building the state
  • Mining Michigan
  • Turn of the century
  • Birth of the automobile
  • World War I
  • The Progressive Era
  • The Great Depression and growth of labor
  • World War II
  • Postwar Michigan and the turbulent 1960s
  • 1970s and beyond
  • Postlude.

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