Michigan

by Dunbar, Willis F.

• ISBN13: 9780802870551
• ISBN10: 0802870554
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-07-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
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Summary

This book examines Michigan's colorful history from 1980 to 1994. George May has used the large body of new studies that have appeared in recent years to expand and improve the book's coverage of Indians, African Americans, various ethnic groups, recent political developments, labor and business, and numerous other topics.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	ix
Preface	x
The Physical Environment	1	(7)
Michigan's First Residents	8	(9)
The French Explorers	17	(22)
Michigan under French Development	39	(25)
Michigan under the British Flag	64	(26)
Michigan and the Old Northwest, 1783-1805	90	(22)
Michigan's Troubled Decade, 1805-1815	112	(27)
Exit the Fur Trader; Enter the Farmer	139	(24)
The Era of the Pioneers	163	(19)
Political Development and Cultural Beginnings	182	(22)
A Stormy Entrance into the Union	204	(17)
A Cycle of Boom, Bust, and Recovery	221	(21)
Out of the Wilderness, 1835-1860	242	(37)
Michigan Leads the Way in Education	279	(18)
Politics in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Michigan	297	(18)
Michigan and the Civil War	315	(23)
The Heyday of the Lumber Industry	338	(14)
The Mining Boom	352	(17)
An Expanding Transportation Network	369	(12)
Citadel of Republicanism	381	(12)
The Growth of Manufacturing	393	(24)
Michigan and the Automobile	417	(26)
Progressivism and the Growth of Social Consciousness	443	(17)
World War I and Its Aftermath	460	(22)
Michigan Becomes an Urban State	482	(32)
Depression and War	514	(25)
The Postwar Years	539	(26)
Years of Change and Turmoil	565	(29)
The Enrichment of Cultural Life	594	(36)
Toward a New Century	630	(30)
Suggestions for Further Reading	660	(15)
Appendix I	675	(1)
Appendix II	676	(3)
Notes	679	(39)
Index	718