West to far Michigan : settling the Lower Peninsula, 1815-1860 / Kenneth E. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Kenneth E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land tenure--Michigan--Lower Peninsula--History--19th century.

Land tenure.

Land settlement--Michigan--Lower Peninsula--History--19th century.

Land settlement.

Land settlement patterns--Michigan--Lower Peninsula--History--19th century.

Land settlement patterns.

Agricultural colonies--Michigan--Lower Peninsula--History--19th century.

Agricultural colonies.

Indians of North America--Land tenure--Michigan--Lower Peninsula--History--19th century.

Indians of North America.

Lower Peninsula (Mich.)--History--19th century.

Lower Peninsula (Mich.).

Michigan--History--19th century.

Michigan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (536 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

West to Far Michigan is a study of the lower peninsula's occupation by agriculturalists, whose presence forever transformed the land and helped to create the modern state of Michigan. This is not simply a history of Michigan, but rather a work that focuses on why the state developed as it did. Although Michigan is seen today as an industrial state whose history is couched in terms of the fur trade and the international rivalry for the Great Lakes, agricultural settlement shaped its expansion. Using a model of agricultural colonization derived from comparative studies, Lewis exam

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1. Frontier Studies and Approach to Michigan's Past; 2. Michigan Before 1815: Prelude to American Settlement; 3. The Environmental Context of Colonization; 4. The Impact of Perception on Settlement; 5. The Transfer of Land; 6. The Settlers' Acquisition of Land; 7. Strategies for Settlement; 8. Michigan's Frontier Economy in 1845; 9. Population Expansion, Transportation, and Settlement Pattering on the Michigan Frontier, 1845-1860; 10. Long-Distance Transportation and External Trade

11. The Restructuring of Michigan Agriculture12. The Organization of Production and Marketing; 13. The Consolidation of Settlement and Transportation; 14. The Landscape of Settlement in Southern Michigan in 1860; 15. Epilogue; Appendices; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-500) and index.

ISBN:

0-87013-934-7

OCLC:

654488998