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Regional Studies Categories: Regional Studies, Art & Architecture, Detroit, History, Literature, Science, Automotive History, Maritime History, Young Readers
Regional Studies Series: Detroit Biography Series for Young Readers, Great Lakes Books Series, Painted Turtle Series
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Hollowed Ground
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Picturing Hemingway’s MichiganBy Michael R. Federspiel A compilation of personal photographs, historical images, and written excerpts illuminating Ernest Hemingway’s significant ties to northern Michigan. Price: $39.95t (Cloth) | |||
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Techno Rebels
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Storied Independent Automakers
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The Slasher Killings
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Hollowed Ground Details a century and a half of copper mining along Upper Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, from the arrival of the first incorporated mines in the 1840s until the closing of the last mine in the mid-1990s. |
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Picturing Hemingway’s Michigan A compilation of personal photographs, historical images, and written excerpts illuminating Ernest Hemingway’s significant ties to northern Michigan. |
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Techno Rebels An updated, expanded history of techno music with special attention to its roots in Detroit. |
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Storied Independent Automakers Explores the business history of three major independent American automakers—Nash Motor Company, the Hudson Motor Car Company, and the American Motors Company—that faced fierce competition from the “Big Three.” |
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The Slasher Killings Examines the postwar Windsor slasher killings and the social consequences of the public paranoia that followed. |
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When You Come Home The story of two Wayne State University students who were separated by World War II, told through the letters that they exchanged. |
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Life with Mae A memoir of growing up on Detroit’s East Side in the 1930s and 1940s combined with an often hilarious biographical portrait of Shine’s mother, Mae. |
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Henry Ford A reprint of the rare and controversial biography of Henry Ford, first published in 1923, written by Ford’s close associate. |
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Detroit on Stage Detroit on Stage traces the extraordinary history of Detroit’s The Players club from its beginnings in 1910 until present. |
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Learning to Cook in 1898 Based on the pocket notebook and handwritten recipes of Irma Rosenthal Frankenstein, a young Chicago housewife from the turn of the twentieth century, Learning to Cook in 1898 is a glimpse into American culinary history. |
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