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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817876703321

Autore

Hershock Martin J. <1962->

Titolo

The paradox of progress : economic change, individual enterprise, and political culture in Michigan, 1837-1878 / Martin J. Hershock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, 2003

ISBN

0-8214-4178-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Disciplina

977.4/02

Soggetti

Michigan Politics and government 1837-1950

Michigan Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-307) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 "We Were then, as it were, Still in Our Knickerbockers" -- 2 "Because the People are, by the Grace of God, Free and Independent" -- 3 "This Age is Big With Importance" -- 4 "Politics . . . have Undergone a Thorough Change" -- 5 "Misfortunes Make Strange Bedfellows" -- 6 "We Know no Party Until the Contest Is Over" -- 7 "I am Sick and Pained that our Republicans so Act" -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.