Frontier seaport Detroit's transformation into an Atlantic entrepôt
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| Sprache: | English |
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Chicago [u.a.]
Univ. of Chicago Press
2014
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| Schriftenreihe: | American beginnings, 1500 - 1900
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- "The appearance of the settlement is very smiling"
- "In time this city will become conspicuous": the development of non-fur-trade commerce
- "The inhabitants are well supplied with provisions of every description"
- "Altogether preferable to shoes": the fashioning of moccasins
- "Detroit, politically . . . remains . . . an isolated moral mass"
- "Advisable to improve the arrangement of the town": rebuilding after the great fire of 1805
- "Sinister conduct": the pervasion of staples smuggling
- Epilogue: "Exceedingly well situated for a commercial port"