Michigan : a history of the Great Lakes state / / Bruce A. Rubenstein, Lawrence E. Ziewacz

• Autore: Rubenstein Bruce A (Bruce Alan)
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2014; ©2014
• Edizione: Fifth edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (403 p.)
• Disciplina: 977.4
• Soggetto geografico: Michigan History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ZiewaczLawrence E (Lawrence Edward)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Michigan: A History of the Great Lakes State; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 The Original Michiganians; The Three Fires; Effects of White Contact; Effects of Assimilation; Indians in Modern Michigan; For Further Reading; 2 The New Acadia; Samuel de Champlain; Missionaries and their Activities; The Crown Takes Control; Jean Talon-"The Great Intendant"; Talon and the West; The Revival of Missionary Activity; Père Marquette; La Salle and Frontenac; Cadillac and Frontenac; End of the French Empire; For Further Reading; 3 Under the Union Jack; Pontiac's Uprising; Proclamation of 1763 ; Michilimackinac and Major Robert Rogers The Quebec Act and the American Revolution; For Further Reading; 4 Wilderness Politics and Economics; The War of 1812; The Continuing British Threat; The American Fur Company; Toledo and Statehood; For Further Reading; 5 Challenges of Statehood; Internal Improvements; The Copper Kingdom; The Ontonagon Boulder; Iron Mining; Transportation; The Sault Ste. Marie Canal; A New Capital; The Constitution of 1850; A New Look; For Further Reading; 6 Decade of Turmoil; Evils of "Old John Barleycorn"; Bastion of Free Men; King of the Beaver Islands; Under the Oaks ; For Further Reading 7 Defense of the Nation; War Politics; The Struggle for Freedom; Life and Labor During the War; For Further Reading; 8 Radicals and Reformers; Black Suffrage Agitation; The Quest for Women's Suffrage; Senatorial Contests of 1869 and 1871; The Liberal Republican Movement; The Campaign of 1874; Zachariah Chandler: Down but Not Out; From Chandler to Pingree; The Pingree Era; For Further Reading; 9 Early Ethnic Contributions; Michigan and Immigration Encouragement; Germans; Canadiens and Canadians; Dutch; Cornish and Irish; Scandinavians; The New Immigration ; For Further Reading 10 Grain, Grangers, and Conservation; Climate and Soil; Effects of the Civil War; The Patrons of Husbandry; Kellogg and Post; Agriculture in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries; Waste of Wildlife; For Further Reading; 11 Development of Intellectual Maturity; School Laws and Financing; Teachers, Students, and the "Little Red Schoolhouse"; Higher Education; Women's Education; Special Education; Recent Educational Advances; Social and Cultural Enrichment; For Further Reading; 12 Wood and Rails; Finding the Timber; Cutting and Milling; Fire; Nature or Money ; Timber in Modern Michigan Riding the Rails; The Great Railroad Conspiracy; The Golden Age of Railroads; Upper Peninsula Railroads; Decline of the Railroads; For Further Reading; 13 The World of Wheels; Olds' "Mobile"; Henry and His "Lizzie"; Ford and Society; Growth of an Industrial Giant; Chrysler and American Motors; The Automobile Industry's Effect on Society; For Further Reading; 14 From Bull Moose to Bull Market; Early Michigan Progressives; Chase S. Osborn-"Mr. Progressive"; The Campaign of 1912; Crisis in Calumet; The End of "Demon Rum"; Women's Suffrage; World War I
• Sommario/riassunto: The fifth edition of Michigan: A History of the Great Lakes State presents an update of the best college-level survey of Michigan history, covering the pre-Columbian period to the present. Represents the best-selling survey history of MichiganIncludes updates and enhancements reflecting the latest historic scholarship, along with the new chapter 'Reinventing Michigan'Expanded coverage includes the socio-economic impact of tribal casino gaming on Michigan's Native American population; environmental, agricultural, and educational issues; recent developments
• Titolo autorizzato: Michigan
• ISBN: 1-118-64975-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453528403321
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