Beginning with French trapper tienne Brl's arrival on the shores of Upper Michigan in 1620, "Detroit: Who Built Her? Who Broke Her? is an depth chronicle of all the forces, foreign and domestic, that shaped not only this great city, but Michigan, and the Great Lakes region as well from 1620 to 1890. Witness Detroit's development under the successive rule of the French, then the British, and, finally, the new republic.
Beginning with French trapper tienne Brl's arrival on the shores of Upper Michigan in 1620, "Detroit: Who Built Her? Who Broke Her? is an depth chronicle of all the forces, foreign and domestic, that shaped not only this great city, but Michigan, and the Great Lakes region as well from 1620 to 1890. Witness Detroit's development under the successive rule of the French, then the British, and, finally, the new republic.
