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Title Frontier seaport : Detroit's transformation into an Atlantic entrepĂ´t / Catherine Cangany.

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Description 1 online resource.
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series American beginnings, 1500-1900.
Note Description based on print version record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "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".
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Detroit (Mich.) -- History.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Commerce -- History.
Added Author Ebooks Corporation
Related To Original 9780226096704 022609670X (DLC) 2013022420
ISBN 022609684X (electronic bk.)
9780226096841 (electronic bk.)
9780226096704 (cloth : alk. paper)
022609670X (cloth : alk. paper)
UPC # 40023413981
OCLC # EBC1639066
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