A place in common : rethinking the history of early Detroit / edited by Karen L. Marrero and Andrew K. Sturtevant.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marrero, Karen L., editor.

Sturtevant, Andrew K. (Andrew Keith), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French--Michigan--Detroit Region--History--18th century.

French.

Indians of North America--Michigan--Detroit Region--History--18th century.

Indians of North America.

Detroit Region (Mich.)--History--18th century.

Detroit Region (Mich.).

Detroit Region (Mich.)--Ethnic relations--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Rethinking the history of early Detroit

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"At the turn of the eighteenth century, Indigenous nations designated Detroit as a "common bowl" and a crucial nexus where they shared resources, made compromises, and coexisted. As the century unfolded, Detroit continued as a polyglot community in the face of expanding Euro-American settlement. The region became a highly charged space where the rituals of political negotiation grew in importance alongside a constant threat of violence. British political and economic systems continued to operate long after the end of the American Revolution, creating a shared cultural border at the end of the eighteenth century that would endure even as the American empire reestablished rule on the north side of the river. Both Anishinaabe and Wyandot people set aside land for future occupation of their people, re-creating another transnational space in the region. A hundred years later, issues of race, economic development, political partisanship and overlapping national claims continued to resonate as the city commemorated and mythologized its origins. This book considers how larger watershed occasions impacted the Detroit region and how, in turn, the unique particularities of local custom impacted regional and national trade and politics and the very nature of how the city continues to view its past"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Detroit Palimpsest : Colonizing Detroit / Andrew Sturtevant

The Politics of Persuasion : Cadillac's Relation from Detroit of 1701 / Sara Chapman

Public Powers on the Margins of Empire : How Feudalism and Absolutism Clashed in French Detroit, 1701-1734 / Guillaume Teasdale

She Has Lived in Fashion : A Native Woman Trader's Household in the Detroit River Region, Emily Macgillivray and Tiya Miles

The Legend Explains Itself : Analyzing the Myths of Detroit's Early History / Karen Marrero and Brandon Dean

In Defense of Borderlands : A Microhistory of Settler Colonialism in the Detroit River Valley, 1796-1815 / Lawrence B. A. Hatter

Apocalypse Then? Histories of Detroit's First Tragedy, the Fox Indian Massacre of 1712 / Richard Weyhing

A Most Interesting Ride : Francis Parkman, the War Called Pontiac's, and the Power of Collective of Memory / Catherine Cangany

Beware the Nain Rouge / Katherine Grandjean.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781611865172

1611865174

9781611865189

1611865182

OCLC:

1449550726