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  • von Arthur M. Woodford
    114,00 €

    This text is a history of the American city of Detroit. It covers its founding as a French colony, its time as a British fort and an American town. It emphasizes the contributions of Detroit business and industry, particularly the automobile revolution, to America's development.

  • von Charles K Hyde
    30,00 €

    At the start of the Ford Motor Company in 1903, the Dodge Brothers supplied nearly every car part needed by the up-and-coming auto giant. After fifteen years of operating a successful automotive supplier company, John and Horace Dodge again changed the face of the automotive market in 1914 by introducing their own car. The Dodge Brothers automobile carried on their names even after their untimely deaths in 1920, which led to its sale in 1925 to New York bankers and subsequent purchase in 1928 by Walter Chrysler. Hyde not only details the brothers' lives and influence on automotive manufacturing and marketing trends in the early part of the twentieth century but also their civic contributions to Detroit, their hiring of African Americans and women, and their often anonymous charitable contributions to local organizations. Despite their achievements and their critical role in the early success of Henry Ford, John and Horace Dodge are usually overlooked in histories of the early automotive industry, but Hyde has put them front and center again to appropriately credit their lasting legacy.

  • - Detroit City Poetry 2001
     
    38,00 €

    A multicultural anthology of Detroit poetry from the 1930s to 2000. It is designed to explore whether poets' surroundings shape their work, and features more than 100 poets. Writing about location as if it were a living entity, the poets visualize Detroit as a variety of complex archetypes.

  • von Armas K.E. Holmio
    57,00 €

    Originally published in Finnish in 1967, this text brings the story of the contribution of Finnish immigrants into the mainstream of Michigan history. Firsthand experiences are combined with research in Finnish language sources to create the story of an immigrant group in Michigan's development.

  • - Gordon M. McGregor, Ford of Canada, and Motoropolis
    von David Roberts
    52,00 €

    Part biography and part corporate history, this work investigates the life and career of Gordon M McGregor, who founded and led Ford of Canada during the first two decades of the twentieth century. It intertwines McGregor's corporate, civic, and personal lives to trace his pioneering role in the automobile industry.

  • von Jim Daniels
    29,00 €

  • - The History of Detroit Television Journalism
    von Tim Kiska
    35,00 €

    As the chief source of information for many people and a key revenue stream for the country's broadcast conglomerates, local television news has grown from a curiosity into a powerful journalistic and cultural force. This title explores the development of local television news and the economic and social factors that elevated it to prominence.

  • von Anne-Marie Oomen
    36,00 €

  • von Anna Egan Smucker
    26,00 €

  • von Anne-Marie Oomen
    31,00 €

  • - Sailing Through the Sixties
    von Patrick Livingston
    50,00 €

    This title chronicles Patrick Livingston's adventures on eight shipping vessels - only one of which survives - during the 1960s. Told from the perspective of a writer who sails rather than a sailor who writes, the tales are spiced with connections between shore and sea.

  • - The Civil War Letters of John Bennitt, M.D., Surgeon, 19th Michigan Infantry
     
    76,00 €

    In 1862 at the age of 32, Centreville, Michigan, physician John Bennitt joined the 19th Michigan Infantry Regiment as an assistant surgeon and remained in military service for the rest of the war. During this time Bennitt wrote more than 200 letters home to his wife and daughters.

  • von Charles Ferguson Barker
    38,00 €

  • - A History of the Boys and Girls Republic
    von Gay Pitman Zieger
    51,00 €

    This work tells the story of a notable children's institution founded at the turn of the 20th century. It looks at the lives of troubled children and those who helped them, and illuminates major shifts in America's child welfare system.

  • - A Roster and History of Troops Activated Prior to the American Civil War
     
    53,00 €

    This treatment of Michigan's early military forces includes the names of all known Michiganians who answered the call to arms prior to the Civil War and explains the circumstances of each major conflict.

  • - Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors
    von Joe Grimm & Ivan Walton
    43,00 €

    A collection of stories and songs of the men who sailed the schooners on the Great Lakes in the 19th century. The book presents the music once heard on the schooners and offers a first hand musical picture of how sailors once lived aboard these ships.

  • von Charles K. Hyde
    48,00 €

  • - The Pioneering Efforts of Detroit Police Commissioner George Edwards
    von Mary M. Stolberg
    41,00 €

    This title portrays the career of George Edwards, Detroit's visionary police commissioner, whose efforts to bring racial equality, minority recruiting, and community policing to Detroit's police department in the early 1960s were met with much controversy within the city's administration.

  • - Narrative of Tiger Stadium
    von Richard Bak
    50,00 €

    This is a narrative history of the Tiger Stadium in Detroit, home to the Tigers baseball team. It is a history of the people who owned the stadium, and the games and the teams that played there from its beginnings in the 1850s through to the Tiger's 1997 season.

  • - History of Logging in Northern Michigan
    von Theodore & J. Karamanski
    40,00 €

    In Deep Woods Frontier, Theodore J. Karamanski examines the interplay between men and technology in the lumbering of Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula. Three distinct periods emerged as the industry evolved. The pine era was a rough pioneering time when trees were felled by axe and floated to ports where logs were loaded on schooners for shipment to large cities. When the bulk of the pine forests had been cut, other entrepreneurs saw opportunity in the unexploited stands of maple and birch and harnessed the railroad to transport logs. Finally, in the pulpwood era, "weed trees," despised by previous loggers, are cut by chain saw, and moved by skidder and truck. Narrating the history of Michigan's forest industry, Karamanski provides a dynamic study of an important part of the Upper Peninsula's economy.

  • - The Life of Otis Milton Smith
    von Otis Milton Smith
    46,00 €

    The author recounts his life as an African-American who overcame poverty and prejudice to become a successful politician and the first black elected to a statewide office. He went on to become the first black vice president and general counsel to General Motors.

  • - History of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company
    von Al Miller
    52,00 €

    Formed in 1901 by US Steel Corporation, the Pittsburgh Steamship Company became the largest fleet in Great Lakes shipping and the American steel industry. This work tells its story: the ships, the men who sailed them, and the conditions that shaped their times.

  • - From Margin to Mainstream
     
    48,00 €

    Detroit is home to one of the largest and most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East. This collection of memoirs, poetry, interviews and essays brings together the work of 25 contributors to paint a colourful portrait of Detroit's Arab community.

  • von Kathryn Bishop Eckert
    103,00 €

    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. This book examines the region as a built environment and the efforts of architects and builders to use local red sandstone.

  • - Keweenaw Native Copper, 1500-1870
    von David J. Krause
    37,00 €

    The Keweenaw Peninsula of northern Michigan is the only place on earth where large amounts of copper are found in the pure metallic "native" state. The Making of a Mining District is the first book to fully document how the value of these unique deposits came to be recognized, from the time Europeans first became aware of the native copper shortly after 1500 to the establishment of the region as one of the great copper mining districts of the world.Krause focuses on the period from 1820 to 1865, when the district's true mining potential became clearer to many and when American science changed from a pleasant amateur diversion into a more rigorous professional discipline, a change clearly reflected in attitudes toward this unique region.

  • - Search for a Child Killer
    von Tommy McIntyre
    33,00 €

  • - An Environmental History
    von William Ashworth
    36,00 €

  • - An American Boyhood
    von Bruce Catton
    35,00 €

  • - Story of Upper Michigan
    von John Bartlow Martin
    37,00 €

    John Bartlow Martin, a freelance writer who had spent long weeks in northern Wisconsin and Michigan, was struck with the idea of a book on Michigan's Upper Peninsula when he was there on his wedding trip. Returning each summer to the area, Martin discovered the region's diverse history, full of colorful and interesting personalities and events. The territory has been wilderness, a haunt of the Chippewas and the Hurons, copper country, iron country, lumber country, and lastly, a vacation land.Filled with stories of adventure and daring, Call It North Country recounts the lives of miners, hunters, trappers, and lumberjacks- the hardy breeds who first populated the harsh land of the Upper Peninsula.

  • von Conrad Hilberry
    42,00 €

    A vivd and detailed portrait of serial murder brothers Luke Karamazov and Tommy Searl.

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