Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Berlin

Intro -- Michigan: A History of the Great Lakes State -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Original Michiganians -- The Three Fires -- Effects of White Contact -- Effects of Assimilation -- Indians in Modern Michigan -- For Further Reading -- 2 The New Acadia -- Samuel de Champlain -- Missionaries and their Activities -- The Crown Takes Control -- Jean Talon-"The Great Intendant" -- Talon and the West -- The Revival of Missionary Activity -- Père Marquette -- La Salle and Frontenac -- Cadillac and Frontenac -- End of the French Empire -- For Further Reading -- 3 Under the Union Jack -- Pontiac's Uprising -- Proclamation of 1763 -- Michilimackinac and Major Robert Rogers -- The Quebec Act and the American Revolution -- For Further Reading -- 4 Wilderness Politics and Economics -- The War of 1812 -- The Continuing British Threat -- The American Fur Company -- Toledo and Statehood -- For Further Reading -- 5 Challenges of Statehood -- Internal Improvements -- The Copper Kingdom -- The Ontonagon Boulder -- Iron Mining -- Transportation -- The Sault Ste. Marie Canal -- A New Capital -- The Constitution of 1850 -- A New Look -- For Further Reading -- 6 Decade of Turmoil -- Evils of "Old John Barleycorn" -- Bastion of Free Men -- King of the Beaver Islands -- Under the Oaks -- For Further Reading -- 7 Defense of the Nation -- War Politics -- The Struggle for Freedom -- Life and Labor During the War -- For Further Reading -- 8 Radicals and Reformers -- Black Suffrage Agitation -- The Quest for Women's Suffrage -- Senatorial Contests of 1869 and 1871 -- The Liberal Republican Movement -- The Campaign of 1874 -- Zachariah Chandler: Down but Not Out -- From Chandler to Pingree -- The Pingree Era -- For Further Reading -- 9 Early Ethnic Contributions -- Michigan and Immigration Encouragement -- Germans -- Canadiens and Canadians -- Dutch.