The Straits of Empire: French Colonial Detroit and the Origins of the Fox Wars
- ISBN-10
- 1267611014
- ISBN-13
- 9781267611017
- Pages
- 169
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Authors
- University of Chicago, Richard Weyhing
Description
"The Straits of Empire" brings a transatlantic lens to these events. I attempt to tell a broader story, showing how two complex and changeable systems — the patron client networks of the French state and the diverse Indian villages of the Great Lakes — became violently enmeshed at Detroit he turn of the eighteenth century.
