This standard textbook on Michigan history covers the entire scope of the Wolverine State's historical record. This third revised edition incorporates events since 1980 and draws on new studies to expand and improve its coverage of various ethnic groups, recent political developments, labor and business, and many other topics.

Manufacturer: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Written By: Willis F. Dunbar, George S. May

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

Located twenty miles south of Detroit where the Detroit River meets Lake Erie, Bob-lo Island was the ultimate summer playground for families from Detroit and Windsor for nearly one hundred years. In its heyday, the island housed an amusement park with one of the world s largest dance halls, an elegant restaurant, and a hand-carved carousel. It also employed two large Frank Kirby designed ferry ...

Manufacturer: Wayne State Univ Pr
Written By: Patrick Livingston

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

During her time as an art student in New York City, Mary Keithan never imagined that one day she would drive the state of Michigan's labyrinthine back roads in search of architectural subjects for her photographs. But, in 1990, shortly after acquiring an 8" x 10" view camera, she began just such an odyssey. In the process she captured on film and preserved images of the rural landscape's most ...

Manufacturer: Michigan State University Press

From the author of the award-winning Frontier Metropolis, this volume presents a comprehensive visual history of the straits of Mackinac in pre-photographic images.

Manufacturer: Wayne State Univ Pr
Written By: Brian Leigh Dunnigan

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

Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
Written By: Roger Van Noord

From 1870 to 1910 the prosperity of the copper and iron mining, lumbering, and shipping industries of the Lake Superior region created a demand for more substantial buildings. In satisfying this demand, architects, builders, sad clients preferred local red sandstone. They found this stone beautiful, colorful, carvable, durable, and fireproof. Because it was extracted easily in large blocks and ...

Manufacturer: Wayne State University Press
Written By: Kathryn Bishop Eckert

Manufacturer: Genealogical Publishing Company
Written By: Carol McGinnis