Michigan Historical Review articles from March 2005

Michigan Historical Review archives from March 2005

Preface.
March 22, 2005... This is the second of two special issues exploring the place of Michigan and the Great Lakes region in the history of cartography. For a fuller explanation, please see the preface to the Fall 2004 issue of the Review. In that issue, we...

Motives for mapping the Great Lakes: Upper Canada, 1782-1827 (1).
March 22, 2005... "What are maps for?" An obvious reply would be, "to find the way": tourists carry maps; locals do not need them. But it is easier to be taken to a new destination by someone who knows it; and most, though certainly not all, European exploration...

Mapping the Grand Traverse Indian country: the contributions of Peter Dougherty.
March 22, 2005... The Reverend Peter Dougherty (1805-1894) came to northwestern Michigan in 1838 as a missionary sent out by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church. He has not been known as a cartographer, but his sketch maps of the Grand...

Mapping cities and towns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: a look at plat, Sanborn, and panoramic mapping activities in Michigan.
March 22, 2005... As nonindigenous settlement of Michigan expanded during the nineteenth century, the mapping needs of the area changed significantly. Land speculation, farming, logging, and construction of villages and towns began to dominate the area's...

The shifting agendas of midwestern official state highway maps.
March 22, 2005... Nowhere are the motives for mapping more transparent than in the history of automobile-highway cartography. Beginning in the mid-1910s, oil companies pioneered the practice of "giving away" maps to their customers as premiums, hoping that...

Louis Charles Karpinski and the cartography of the Great Lakes.
March 22, 2005... For Great Lakes map enthusiasts and Michigan historians, the word "Karpinski" evokes two related phrases: "Karpinski number--" or "not in Karpinski." These phrases refer, of course, to the 1931 Bibliography of the Prated Maps of Michigan, by...

Michigan: cartographic perspectives on the "Great Lakes State".
March 22, 2005... Since the beginning of American statehood, a map of the commonwealth has been an important expression of sovereignty and civic identity. The United States, it was true, cemented together the separate states, a unity created out of many...

Lisa M. Fine, The Story of REO JOE: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Lisa M. Fine, The Story of REO JOE: Work, Fan, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. Pp. 239. Appendix. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $69.50; paper, $22.95. In The Story of REO...

Denise Gess and William Lutz. Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Denise Gess and William Lutz. Firestorm at Peshtigo: A Town, Its People, and the Deadliest Fire in American History. New York: Henry Holt, 2003. Pp. 263. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $15.00. On October 8, 1871, an...

Jean Lamarre. The French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Jean Lamarre. The French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. Pp. 209. Bibliography. Index. Notes. Paper: $24.95....

Robyn L. Rosen. Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights: Reformers and the Politics of Maternal Welfare, 1917-1940.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Robyn L. Rosen. Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights: Reformers and the Politics of Maternal Welfare, 1917-1940. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003. Pp. 232. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $39.95; CD $9.95. ...

James S. Rubenstein. Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... James S. Rubenstein. Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. 209. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Notes. Cloth, $48.00. The American...

Irene Walt and various contributors, with photographs by Balthazar Korab. Art in the Stations: The Detroit People Mover.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Irene Walt and various contributors, with photographs by Balthazar Korab. Art in the Stations: The Detroit People Mover. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. Pp. 88. Photographs. Cloth, $45.95. The artworks showcased in the thirteen...