Author: Earl L. Doyle
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Category : Baraga County (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The History of Pequaming
History of L'Anse Township
Author: L'Anse High School (L'Anse, Mich.)
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Category : Baraga County (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Category : Baraga County (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and Its People
Author: Alvah Littlefield Sawyer
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Company Towns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Author: Christian Holmes
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625852762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
In the company towns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a worker's boss did extra duty as landlord, store owner and constable. The on-site mill manager in Simmons, a town named after the furniture maker, even ran a successful baseball team. Built around iron mines and lumber concerns and directed by prominent entrepreneurs like Henry Ford, these industrial hamlets once lined the shores of Lakes Michigan and Superior. Author Christian Holmes uncovers rich stories of struggle and celebration as he explores the vestiges of these vanished communities and their lasting legacy in the identity of the Upper Peninsula.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625852762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
In the company towns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a worker's boss did extra duty as landlord, store owner and constable. The on-site mill manager in Simmons, a town named after the furniture maker, even ran a successful baseball team. Built around iron mines and lumber concerns and directed by prominent entrepreneurs like Henry Ford, these industrial hamlets once lined the shores of Lakes Michigan and Superior. Author Christian Holmes uncovers rich stories of struggle and celebration as he explores the vestiges of these vanished communities and their lasting legacy in the identity of the Upper Peninsula.
History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
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Category : Florence County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher description: This volume presents a detailed study of the climate strategies of ExxonMobil, Shell, and Statoil. With an innovative analytical approach, the authors explain variations at three decision-making levels: within the companies themselves, in the national home-bases of the companies, and at the international level. The analysis generates policy-relevant knowledge about whether and how corporate resistance to a viable climate policy can be overcome.
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Category : Florence County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher description: This volume presents a detailed study of the climate strategies of ExxonMobil, Shell, and Statoil. With an innovative analytical approach, the authors explain variations at three decision-making levels: within the companies themselves, in the national home-bases of the companies, and at the international level. The analysis generates policy-relevant knowledge about whether and how corporate resistance to a viable climate policy can be overcome.
Fordlandia
Author: Greg Grandin
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429938013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin comes the stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid to export America itself, along with its golf courses, ice-cream shops, bandstands, indoor plumbing, and Model Ts rolling down broad streets. Fordlandia, as the settlement was called, quickly became the site of an epic clash. On one side was the car magnate, lean, austere, the man who reduced industrial production to its simplest motions; on the other, the Amazon, lush, extravagant, the most complex ecological system on the planet. Ford's early success in imposing time clocks and square dances on the jungle soon collapsed, as indigenous workers, rejecting his midwestern Puritanism, turned the place into a ribald tropical boomtown. Fordlandia's eventual demise as a rubber plantation foreshadowed the practices that today are laying waste to the rain forest. More than a parable of one man's arrogant attempt to force his will on the natural world, Fordlandia depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch. As Greg Grandin shows in this gripping and mordantly observed history, Ford's great delusion was not that the Amazon could be tamed but that the forces of capitalism, once released, might yet be contained. Fordlandia is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429938013
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Greg Grandin comes the stunning, never before told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Brazilian Amazon. His intention was to grow rubber, but the project rapidly evolved into a more ambitious bid to export America itself, along with its golf courses, ice-cream shops, bandstands, indoor plumbing, and Model Ts rolling down broad streets. Fordlandia, as the settlement was called, quickly became the site of an epic clash. On one side was the car magnate, lean, austere, the man who reduced industrial production to its simplest motions; on the other, the Amazon, lush, extravagant, the most complex ecological system on the planet. Ford's early success in imposing time clocks and square dances on the jungle soon collapsed, as indigenous workers, rejecting his midwestern Puritanism, turned the place into a ribald tropical boomtown. Fordlandia's eventual demise as a rubber plantation foreshadowed the practices that today are laying waste to the rain forest. More than a parable of one man's arrogant attempt to force his will on the natural world, Fordlandia depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch. As Greg Grandin shows in this gripping and mordantly observed history, Ford's great delusion was not that the Amazon could be tamed but that the forces of capitalism, once released, might yet be contained. Fordlandia is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
History of the Finns in Michigan
Author: Armas Kustaa Ensio Holmio
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814329740
Category : Finnish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A history of the Finnish people in Michigan published in English for the first time.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814329740
Category : Finnish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A history of the Finnish people in Michigan published in English for the first time.
Michigan History Magazine
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Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History
Author: Boston Society of Natural History
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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America, History and Life
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.