Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press

This is a collection of essays about the making and un-making of middle-class culture, a phenomenon which has occured nowhere more decisively than in America's most representative city, Detroit. The book analyses what has happened since the decline of middle-class culture in Detroit.

Manufacturer: Wayne State Univ Pr
Written By: Jerry Herron

"A Desirable Station: Soldier Life at Fort Mackinac, 1867-1895" is the story of more than 1,000 soldiers from around the world who lived and loved, worked and played, won honors and served jail time, ate, slept, and died at Fort Mackinac. This is the final chapter of one of America's great forts which was built during the revolution, attacked during the War of 1812, strengthened to protect John ...

Manufacturer: Mackinac State Historic Parks
Written By: Phil Porter

New edition of this guide to Detroit’s renowned open-air farmers market, featuring stories and recipes from four generations of families.

Manufacturer: Painted Turtle Book
Written By: Lois Johnson, Margaret Thomas

Merging narration with exhibit-quality photographs—weaving history, nostalgia, and even a touch of romance around good graphic evidence of what the canal has become today—Jim Redd takes us on a highly personal journey down the Illinois and Michigan Canal as it follows the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers from Chicago to La Salle.In order to understand the whole of what ...

Manufacturer: Southern Illinois University Press
Written By: Jim Redd

Lives and Legends of the Christmas Tree Ships brings the maritime heritage of the Great Lakes to life, using the tragic story of the schooner Rouse Simmons as a porthole into the robust but often forgotten communities that thrived along Lake Michigan from the Civil War to World War I. ...

Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press/Regional
Written By: Frederick H. Neuschel

Manufacturer: Genealogical Pub Co
Written By: Carol McGinnis

Anne-Marie Oomen uses a wealth of vivid language and personal details to bring scenes from her childhood on a family farm to life in "House of Fields". Yet, the focus of this book shifts away from the daily activities of the farm, which Oomen presented in "Pulling Down the Barn", to life outside its boundaries, as she explores the complex meaning of "education" in all of its rural forms. From ...

Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press
Written By: Anne-Marie Oomen

Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press
Written By: B. J. Widick

Manufacturer: J.B. Howard]
Written By: Joanne Burns Howard