{"product_id":"frontier-seaport-9780226096704","title":"Frontier Seaport","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDetroit'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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)\"","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49369157730647,"sku":"9780226096704","price":39.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226096704.jpg?v=1730128568","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/frontier-seaport-9780226096704","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}