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Michigan’s Lumbertowns: Lumbermen and Laborers in Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon, 1870-1905 (Great Lakes Books Series)

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Michigan’s foremost lumbertowns, flourishing urban industrial centers within the overdue 19th century, faced economic calamity with the depletion of timber supplies by the top of the century. Turning to their very own resources and reflecting individual cultural identities, Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon developed dissimilar strategies to sustain their urban industrial status. This have a look at is a comprehensive history of those lumbertowns from their inception as frontier settlements to their emergence as reshaped industrial centers.

Primarily an examination of the role of the entrepreneur in urban economic development, Michigan Lumbertowns considers the level to which the entrepreneurial approach used to be influenced by every city’s cultural-ethnic construct and its social history. More than a narrative history, this is a have a look at of violence, business, and social change.

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