Frontier Seaport
Detroit's Transformation Into an Atlantic Entrepot
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2014
University of Chicago Press (Hersteller)
9780226096841 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Hersteller)
9780226096841 (ISBN)
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DetroitOCOs industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. TodayOCOs troubles notwithstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the eighteenth century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. Its proximity to the West as well as its access to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River positioned this new metropolis at the intersection of the fur-rich frontier and the Atlantic trade routes. Ina"Frontier Seaport," Catherine Cangany details this seldom-discussed chapter of DetroitOCOs history. She argues that by the time of the American Revolution, Detroit functioned much like a coastal town as a result of the prosperous fur trade, serving as a critical link in a commercial chain that stretched all the way to Russia and ChinaOCothus opening DetroitOCOs shores for eastern merchants and other transplants. This influx of newcomers brought its own transatlantic networks and fed residentsOCO desires for popular culture and manufactured merchandise. Detroit began to be both a frontier town and seaport cityOCoa mixed identity, Cangany argues, that hindered it from becoming a thoroughly OC AmericanOCO metropolis."
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.9.2014 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | American Beginnings, 1500-1900 |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780226096841 / 9780226096841 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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