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  • - City of Race and Class Violence
     
    £28.49

  • by Walter Romig
    £30.49

    From Aabec in Antrim County to Zutphen in Ottawa County, from Hell to Hooker, Michigan Place Names is a compendium of information on the origins of the state's geographical names. With alphabetically arranged thumb-nail sketches, Walter Romig introduces readers to a host of colorful personalities and episodes which have achieved notoriety, though sometimes shortlived, by devising or lending their names to the state's settlements.Romig spent more than ten years researching and documenting the entries to which he added an extensive bibliography of sources and an index of the personal names used in the text. For the curious, the librarian, the genealogist, or the historian, his book is an indispensable resource. Michigan Place Names is another "Michigan classic" reissued as a Great Lakes Book.

  • by Conrad Hilberry
    £28.49

    A vivd and detailed portrait of serial murder brothers Luke Karamazov and Tommy Searl.

  • - Story of Upper Michigan
    by John Bartlow Martin
    £24.49

    John Bartlow Martin, a freelance writer who had spent long weeks in northern Wisconsin and Michigan, was struck with the idea of a book on Michigan's Upper Peninsula when he was there on his wedding trip. Returning each summer to the area, Martin discovered the region's diverse history, full of colorful and interesting personalities and events. The territory has been wilderness, a haunt of the Chippewas and the Hurons, copper country, iron country, lumber country, and lastly, a vacation land.Filled with stories of adventure and daring, Call It North Country recounts the lives of miners, hunters, trappers, and lumberjacks- the hardy breeds who first populated the harsh land of the Upper Peninsula.

  • - History of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company
    by Al Miller
    £38.99

    Formed in 1901 by US Steel Corporation, the Pittsburgh Steamship Company became the largest fleet in Great Lakes shipping and the American steel industry. This work tells its story: the ships, the men who sailed them, and the conditions that shaped their times.

  • - A History of the Boys and Girls Republic
    by Gay Pitman Zieger
    £35.99

    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 those who helped them, and illuminates major shifts in America's child welfare system.

  • - The Goodridge Brothers, African American Photographers, 1847-1922
    by John Vincent Jezierski
    £40.99

    The story of one of America's first families of photography, documenting the history of the Goodridge studio for three-quarters of a century. It weaves photographic and regional history with the narrative of a family whose lives paralleled the social and political happenings of the country.

  • - A Wheelsman's Story
    by Fred W. Dutton & William Donohue Ellis
    £26.49

  • by Charles K. Hyde
    £37.99

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