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Michigan : a history of the Wolverine State / by Willis F. Dunbar.

Title
Michigan : a history of the Wolverine State / by Willis F. Dunbar.
Author
Dunbar, Willis Frederick, 1902-
Publication
Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1995.

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Additional Authors
May, George S.
Description
xii, 769 p. : maps; 24 cm.
Subject
Michigan > History
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 679-717) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Physical Environment -- Michigan's First Residents -- French Explorers -- Michigan under French Development -- Michigan under the British Flag -- Michigan and the Old Northwest 1783-1805 -- Michigan's Troubled Decade, 1805-1815 -- Exit the Fur Trader; Enter the Farmer -- Era of the Pioneers -- Political Development and Cultural Beginnings -- Stormy Entrance in to the Union -- Cycle of Boom, Bust and Recovery -- Out of the Wilderness, 1835-1860 -- Michigan Leads the Wayin Education -- Politics in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Michigan -- Michigan and the Civil War -- Heyday of the Lumber Industry -- Mining Boom -- Expanding Transportation Network -- Citadel of Republicanism -- Growth of Manufacturing -- Michigan and the Automobile -- Progressivism and the Growth of Social Consciouness -- World War I and Its Aftermath -- Michigan becomes an Urban State -- Depression and War -- Postwar Years -- Years of Change and Turmoil -- Enrichment of Cultural Life -- Toward a New Century.
ISBN
0802870554 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^95013128^
OCLC
32236861
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library