Description: The town serves as an ideal historical laboratory for analyzing military actions, shifting alliances, and cultural interactions on the frontier during a particularly volatile time.
Review Quotes:
As the meeting ground for multiple empires and Indian tribes, Detroit might very well have been the most interesting place in colonial America during the eighteenth century. The well-written, deeply-researched, and imaginative essays contained here recapture the dynamism of this essential Great Lakes crossroads.
-- "David J. Silverman"