Description: This book brings together cutting-edge research and thinking about Detroit's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century origins; its cast of Indigenous, European, and Black place makers; and its positions within the histories of the Great Lakes, Canada, and the United States.
Brief description:
Karen L. Marrero is associate professor in the Department of History at Wayne State University in Detroit, associate of the Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University, and member of the Canadian Studies Committee Advisory Board, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University.,
Review Quotes: "This insightful collection of essays vividly illuminates the dilemmas and creativity of the diverse peoples who made early Detroit a pivotal nexus of Native peoples and imperial projects." --Alan Taylor, author of American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873