Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1838 (Great Lakes Books) [Hardcover]

Brian Leigh Dunnigan (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 247 pages
• Publisher: Great Lakes Books (May 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0814327672
• ISBN-13: 978-0814327678
• Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 13.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,338,196 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Detroit You've Never Seen: Its Early History Revealed, February 26, 2002

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Ted J Ligibel (Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1838 (Great Lakes Books) (Hardcover)

This stunning visual documentation of Detroit's evolution from western outpost to one the largest cities on the American frontier is remarkable for both its scholarship and its detailed graphic content. Lush with color, these pre-photographic images depict in vivid detail both the physical growth of Detroit from its earliest days as a European settlement to its mid-nineteenth emergence as one of the industrial/commercial giants of North America, as well as the passing of its role as a center of Native American life.

Created to commemorate Detroit's Tricentennial, the work's author, Brian Dunnigan, Curator of Maps at the University of Michigan's famed William L. Clements Library, has done the nation and Michigan a great service by gathering into one resource these rare and unique images, many of which heretofore never had been published. A wealth of intricate maps, colorful engravings, architect's renderings, military documents, portraits, watercolors, simple line drawings, and even a bull's horn scrimshaw of ships and buildings from 1765 highlight this remarkable work. In all 287 images can be found within its 256 pages. This volume is a welcome addition to scholarship on the Great Lakes and the Northwest Territories, and documents the crucial role Detroit played in the pre and post-revolutionary development of the United States.

5.0 out of 5 stars Who Knew?, November 5, 2006

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Brian Mulloy (Detroit, MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Frontier Metropolis: Picturing Early Detroit, 1701-1838 (Great Lakes Books) (Hardcover)

This is one of my favorite books. On a fall day I love to pull it out onto a table and flip through the pages. The images in the book transport me to an idyllic place along the shores of the beautiful strait that connects Lake Huron to Lake Erie.

It's magical. After I experienced the book, it was impossible to see the Red Wings play Montreal at the Joe and not think of our shared heritage or stare at the RenCen and not imagine the old French fort and strip farms along the shores of the river. If you love Detroit, this is a must have book.