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Chargement... West to Far Michigan: Settling the Lower Peninsula, 1815-1860par Kenneth E. Lewis
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West to Far Michigan is a study of the lower peninsula's occupation by agriculturalists, whose presence forever transformed the land and helped to create the modern state of Michigan. This is not simply a history of Michigan, but rather a work that focuses on why the state developed as it did. Although Michigan is seen today as an industrial state whose history is couched in terms of the fur trade and the international rivalry for the Great Lakes, agricultural settlement shaped its expansion. Using a model of agricultural colonization derived from comparative studies, Lewis exam Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It's not the book I probably anticipated. I was expecting a book telling stories about the people who settled southern Michigan; instead it's a book about how folks settled in southern Michigan. They carved farms out of the forest. The established market towns. They built roads to those towns, and between them. (They tried to build canals, but that didn't work out.) They borrowed money from eastern lenders; later they established local banks in the market towns. They build plank roads to improve market access; then they encouraged the railroads to service their market towns.
This book is more about the geography and economics and sociology of Michigan's frontier than about the struggles of individual settlers. It's probably not the book for everyone, but I thought it was absolutely delightful. (