Frontier seaport: Detroit's transformation into an Atlantic entrepot, 1701--1837.

• Main Author: Cangany, Catherine S.
• Other Authors: Hancock, David J.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Atlantic; Detroit; Entrepot; Frontier; Great Lakes; Michigan; Seaport; Transformation; Middle Ground; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/127115; http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3382032

This dissertation expands the historiographical boundaries of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to include Detroit. It argues that by 1760, this seemingly remote and minor fur-trade settlement was thoroughly integrated into the economy and culture of the North Atlantic basin: it served as a crit...