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Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles not withstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the 18th century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. This book details this seldom-discussed chapter of Detroit's history.

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"In this thoroughly researched and well-written study, Cangany shows how the people of late eighteenth-century Detroit participated fully in a vibrant Atlantic economy. Detroit's entrepreneurs-Native Americans as well as Europeans-developed exciting new trade goods such as moccasins that sustained a sophisticated level of commerce. Frontier Seaport is an impressive and challenging accomplishment." (T. H. Breen, author of Marketplace of Revolution)"

Frontier Seaport

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    A Hardback by Catherine Cangany

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 4 March 2014
      ISBN-13 9780226096704
      978-0226096704
      ISBN-10 022609670X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles not withstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the 18th century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. This book details this seldom-discussed chapter of Detroit's history.

      Trade Review
      "In this thoroughly researched and well-written study, Cangany shows how the people of late eighteenth-century Detroit participated fully in a vibrant Atlantic economy. Detroit's entrepreneurs-Native Americans as well as Europeans-developed exciting new trade goods such as moccasins that sustained a sophisticated level of commerce. Frontier Seaport is an impressive and challenging accomplishment." (T. H. Breen, author of Marketplace of Revolution)"

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