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"Revolutionary Detroit: Portraits in Political and Cultural Change, 1760-1805"
Edited by Denver Brunsman and Joel Stone
The people of Detroit experienced the American revolutionary era in unique ways. More than any locale in North America, it was where French, British, American, and Native American cultures collided and melded during the second half of the eighteenth century. The British takeover of Detroit from the French in 1760 and Pontiac's War in 1763 brought revolutionary changes to the frontier town earlier than most places. Instability also lasted longer. The British did not relinquish control of its largest outpost on the Great Lakes until 1796-thirteen years after the United States won its independence. Ultimately, the American Revolution introduced international boundaries to a region where the Detroit River had always been a highway, not a border.
The essays in this volume put a human face on this fascinating and fiery period of Detroit's past. Each provides a portrait into how an individual, family, or other group responded to and shaped the dramatic changes around them. Revolutionary Detroit witnessed murders, betrayals, hangings, shipwrecks, slavery, servitude, captive-taking, and more. The town serves as an ideal historical laboratory for analyzing military actions, shifting alliances, and cultural interactions on the frontier during a particularly volatile time.
Paperback: 200 pages
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"Detroit Tiki: A History of Polynesian Palaces and Tropical Cocktails" by Renee Tadey When the South Sea craze swept over the nation in the mid-twentieth century, the wave of island-themed...
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"Kahn's Detroit- A field guide to Albert Kahn Designs of the Metro Area" by Dale Carlson This full color book showcases 300 extant Kahn designs in Southeast Michigan. Includes a...
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