Author : Jeremy W. Kilar
Release : 1990
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Michigan's Lumbertowns - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Michigan's Lumbertowns write by Jeremy W. Kilar. This book was released on 1990. Michigan's Lumbertowns available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Michigan's foremost lumbertowns, flourishing urban industrial centers in the late 19th century, faced economic calamity with the depletion of timber supplies by the end of the century. Turning to their own resources and reflecting individual cultural identities, Saginaw, Bay City, and Muskegon developed dissimilar strategies to sustain their urban industrial status. This study is a comprehensive history of these lumbertowns from their inception as frontier settlements to their emergence as reshaped industrial centers. Primarily an examination of the role of the entrepreneur in urban economic development, Michigan Lumbertowns considers the extent to which the entrepreneurial approach was influenced by each city's cultural-ethnic construct and its social history. More than a narrative history, it is a study of violence, business, and social change.