Detroit: a Biography

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"A valuable biography sure to appeal to readers seeking to come to grips with important problems facing not just a city, but a country."--Kirkus Detroit was established as a French settlement three-quarters of a century before the founding of this nation. A remote outpost built to protect trapping interests, its industry took a great leap forward with the completion of the Erie Canal. Detroit turned iron into stoves and railcars, and eventually cars by the millions. This vibrant commercial hub …

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Full title :Detroit : a Biography.

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Publication Date:2012.

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Publisher(s):Chicago Review Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

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Description:1 online resource (306 pages)

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ISBN:9781613743652, 1613743653, 9781569765265, 156976526X
oclc:ocn785732486
LC Classification:F574.D44
Dewey Decimal:977.4/34

Front Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 A Difficult Childhood; 2 The British Decades; Detroiters I: The Morans; 3 Detroit and the Canal of Riches; 4 The Civil War and Racial Flashpoints; 5 Detroit Turns Industrial; Detroiters II: Michael Farrell; 6 The Auto Era; 7 A Great Migration; 8 The Roaring Twenties; 9 Great Depression; 10 The Black Legion; 11 Housing and the Racial Divide; 12 The War Years; 13 The 1943 Riot; 14 The Postwar Boom; 15 Race in the Fifties; Detroiters III: Henry Russell Jr.; 16 Death of the Covenants; Detroiters IV: The Baloks; 17 The Oil Embargo.

Detroiters V: John Thompson18 When the Jobs Go Away; Detroiters VI: Shelley; 19 Pittsburgh, a Different Case; 20 An Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Selected Bibliography; Notes; Index; Back Cover.

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