Life on the Michigan frontier
By: Jim Schwartz.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: DeKalb, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780875804002
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Michigan; Community life -- Michigan -- History -- 19th century; Pioneers -- Michigan -- History; New Englanders -- Michigan -- History -- 19th century; Michigan -- History -- To 1837
Description: Conflict on the Michigan Frontier touches on one of the oldest debates in American history: whether westerners created new cultures or simply transpalanted those in which they had been raised. Despite the focus on Michigan, Schwartz's study sheds important new light on how settlers transplanted eastern culture not just to the Midwest, but to the entire American frontier.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of Michigan's new constitutional order; title: Ohio and the battle for Michigan's southern border; title: Economic development and the panic of 1837; title: Taming the "savagery" of Michigan Indians; title: Civilizing White settlers; title: Cholera and the conflict over cultural boundaries in early; title: Michigan.