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

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

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

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

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

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

Summer Dreams

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• Offers a history of Bob-lo Island, a Canadian amusement park in the mouth of the Detroit River and a favorite recreation spot for generations of Detro... Lees meer

History of the Finns in Michigan

Armas K.E. Holmio

• Hardcover | Great Lakes Books Series
• Originally published in Finnish in 1967, this text brings the story of the contribution of Finnish immigrants into the mainstream of Michigan history.... Lees meer

Arab Detroit

• Hardcover | 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

Talking Shops

David Clements

• Hardcover | Great Lakes Books Series
• Cruise down the inner-city streets of Detroit and your eyes take in an array of familiar images of poverty and decay. What photographer David Ciements... Lees meer

A People's Atlas of Detroit

• Paperback | Great Lakes Books Series
• In recent years, Detroit has been touted as undergoing a renaissance, yet many people have been left behind. Drawing on action research and counter-ca... Lees meer