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Michigan Politics & Government : Facing Change in a Complex State
by Kenneth Verburg and William P. Browne
Overview
Michigan, like most of the states formed from the old Northwest, originated as a state of farmers, fishermen, and lumbermen and remained so until Detroit emerged as a major industrial center at the turn of the twentieth century. The growth of the automotive industry attracted new immigrants and new politics. Republican for most of its history, Michigan became a bipartisan state with political divisions: upper versus lower peninsula, agriculture versus industry, labor versus capital, developers versus ecologists, and conflicts between races.
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- ISBN-13: 9780803260887
- ISBN-10: 0803260881
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publish Date: March 1995
- Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.46 x 1.09 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.27 pounds
- Page Count: 409
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