Survival and Regeneration

Edmund Jefferson Jr. Danziger

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• Tells the story of Detroit's significant and oft-forgotten Native American community. Lees meer

Independent Man

Harry Barnard

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• First published in 1958 by Charles Scribner's Sons, Independent Man is the only book-length biography of one of Michigan's most remarkable men. His ma... Lees meer

Lake Invaders

William Rapai

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• There are more than 180 exotic species in the Great Lakes. Some have had little or no impact so far. But a handful of others - such as alewife, round ... Lees meer

Queen of the Lakes

Mark L. Thompson

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• Perfect for coffee tables, lakefront cabins, and boat lovers' bookshelves, Queen of the Lakes tells the story of each of the ships that has been honou... Lees meer

Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights

Sandy Fine

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• Documents an important shift in state level policy to make clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced all people. Lees meer

Tin Stackers

Al Miller

• Hardcover | Great Lakes Books Series
• Formed in 1901 by US Steel Corporation, the Pittsburgh Steamship Company became the largest fleet in Great Lakes shipping and the American steel indus... Lees meer

What the Chickadee Knows

Margaret Noodin

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• Concerned with nature, history, tradition, and relationships, these poems illuminate the vital place of the author's tribe both in the past and within... Lees meer

Justus S. Stearns

Michael W. Nagle

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• Over the course of his career, Justus S. Stearns would own at least thirty manufacturing businesses, as well as hotels, a railroad, and a power compan... Lees meer

Adversity and Justice

Kevin M. Ball

• Hardcover | Great Lakes Books Series
• Bankruptcy law is a major part of the American legal landscape. More than a million individuals and thousands of businesses sought relief in the Unite... Lees meer

The Dodge Brothers

Charles K. Hyde

• Hardcover | Great Lakes Books Series
• A scholarly study of the Dodge brothers and their company, chronicling their lives - from their childhood in Niles, Michigan, to their long years of l... Lees meer

Roads To Prosperity

Gary Sands, Laura A. Reese

• Hardcover | Great Lakes Books Series
• Explores the relative prosperity of midsize Canadian urban areas (population 50,000 to 400,000) over the past two decades. While there appears to be n... Lees meer

Arab Detroit

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• Detroit is home to one of the largest and most diverse Arab communities outside the Middle East. This collection of memoirs, poetry, interviews and es... Lees meer

Justus S. Stearns

Michael W. Nagle

• Hardcover | Great Lakes Books Series
• Over the course of his career, Justus S. Stearns would own at least thirty manufacturing businesses, as well as hotels, a railroad, and a power compan... Lees meer

Greening the Black Urban Regime

Alesia Montgomery

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• Tells the story of the struggle to shape green redevelopment in Detroit. Based on years of fieldwork, Alesia Montgomery takes us into the city council... Lees meer

Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes

Mark L. Thompson

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes traces the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries. Lees meer

For the Good of the Children

Gay Pitman Zieger

• Hardcover | Great Lakes Books Series
• This work tells the story of a notable children's institution founded at the turn of the 20th century. It looks at the lives of troubled children and ... Lees meer

Hollowed Ground

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• 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... Lees meer

Detroit on Stage

Marijean Levering

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• Traces the extraordinary history of Detroit's The Players Club from its beginnings in 1910 until present. Lees meer

Greening the Black Urban Regime

Alesia Montgomery

• Hardcover | Great Lakes Books Series
• Tells the story of the struggle to shape green redevelopment in Detroit. Based on years of fieldwork, Alesia Montgomery takes us into the city council... Lees meer

Uppermost Canada

R. Alan Douglas

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• Examines the historical, cultural, and social history of the Canadian portion of the Detroit River community in the first half of the nineteenth centu... Lees meer

Seasons of Grace

Leslie Woodcock Tentler

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• Presents a history of the Catholic Church and community in southern lower Michigan from the 1830s to the 1950s. More than a chronicle of clerical succ... Lees meer

John Jacob Astor

John Denis Haeger

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• Biography of John Jacob Astor's life and his career as a merchant, fur trader, and land speculator as vehicles for examining several important themes ... Lees meer

Bridging the River of Hatred

Mary M. Stolberg

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• This title portrays the career of George Edwards, Detroit's visionary police commissioner, whose efforts to bring racial equality, minority recruiting... Lees meer

Paper Valley

David Allen, Susan Campbell

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• Presents a true story of struggle, perseverance, and success that inspires hope for environmentalists who strive to restore natural landscapes. The de... Lees meer