Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1838 (Great Lakes Books) | 
| Author: Brian Leigh Dunnigan
Publisher: Great Lakes Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1487421
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 247
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9.7
Dimensions (in): 18.5 x 13.3 x 1.4
ISBN: 0814327672
Dewey Decimal Number: 977.434
EAN: 9780814327678
ASIN: 0814327672
Publication Date: May 2001
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Who Knew? November 6, 2006
This is one of my favorite books. On a fall day I love to pull it out onto a table and flip through the pages. The images in the book transport me to an idyllic place along the shores of the beautiful strait that connects Lake Huron to Lake Erie.
It's magical. After I experienced the book, it was impossible to see the Red Wings play Montreal at the Joe and not think of our shared heritage or stare at the RenCen and not imagine the old French fort and strip farms along the shores of the river. If you love Detroit, this is a must have book.
The Detroit You've Never Seen: Its Early History Revealed February 27, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This stunning visual documentation of Detroit's evolution from western outpost to one the largest cities on the American frontier is remarkable for both its scholarship and its detailed graphic content. Lush with color, these pre-photographic images depict in vivid detail both the physical growth of Detroit from its earliest days as a European settlement to its mid-nineteenth emergence as one of the industrial/commercial giants of North America, as well as the passing of its role as a center of Native American life. Created to commemorate Detroit's Tricentennial, the work's author, Brian Dunnigan, Curator of Maps at the University of Michigan's famed William L. Clements Library, has done the nation and Michigan a great service by gathering into one resource these rare and unique images, many of which heretofore never had been published. A wealth of intricate maps, colorful engravings, architect's renderings, military documents, portraits, watercolors, simple line drawings, and even a bull's horn scrimshaw of ships and buildings from 1765 highlight this remarkable work. In all 287 images can be found within its 256 pages. This volume is a welcome addition to scholarship on the Great Lakes and the Northwest Territories, and documents the crucial role Detroit played in the pre and post-revolutionary development of the United States.
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