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“In this thoroughly researched and well-written study, Catherine Cangany shows how the people of late-eighteenth-century Detroit participated fully in a vibrant Atlantic economy. Indeed, she demonstrates persuasively that traditional notions o
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 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 ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Frontier Seaport: Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt (American Beginnings, 1500-1900) | Catherine Cangany. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.