Frontier Seaport
Detroitas industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Todayas troubles notwithstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the eighteenth century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. Its proximity to the West as well as its access to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River positioned this new metropolis at the intersection of the fur-rich frontier and the Atlantic trade routes. In Frontier Seaport, Catherine Cangany details this seldom-discussed chapter of Detroitas history. She argues that by the time of the American Revolution, Detroit functioned much like a coastal town as a result of the prosperous fur trade, serving as a critical link in a commercial chain that stretched all the way to Russia and Chinaathus opening Detroitas shores for eastern merchants and other transplants. This influx of newcomers brought its own transatlantic networks and fed residentsa desires for popular culture and manufactured merchandise. Detroit began to be both a frontier town and seaport cityaa mixed identity, Cangany argues, that hindered it from becoming a thoroughly aAmericana metropolis.Before he drowned in 1801, sailor Joseph May owned the makings of several tea sets, including cups and saucers in ... Blacksmith Jacob Harsona#39;s 1802 estate included a full queensware dinner and tea service as well as another full teaanbsp;...
| Title | : | Frontier Seaport |
| Author | : | Catherine Cangany |
| Publisher | : | University of Chicago Press - 2014-03-04 |
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