Table of Contents

1. The River; 2. The First People; 3. The French Village; 4. The British Fort; 5. The American Town; 6. The Road West; 7. The Civil War; 8. Industrial Center; 9. The Automobile; 10. World War; 11. The Great Depression; 12. City of Champions; 13. The Rise of Labor; 14. Arsenal of Democracy; 15. City of Change; 16. Civil Rights and Civil Strife; 17. City of Many Tongues; 18. Motown; 19. Renaissance; 20. Epiloque

About the Author

Arthur M. Woodford, a native Detroiter, is director of the St. Clair Shores Public Library. He is coauthor, with his father, Frank B. Woodford, of All Our Yesterdays: A Brief History of Detroit (Wayne State University Press, 1969), and the author of Detroit and Its Banks (Wayne State University Press, 1974), Detroit: American Urban Renaissance (Contental Heritage Press, 1979), and Charting the Inland Seas: A History of the U.S. Lake Survey (Wayne State University Press, 1994).

Reviews

Arthur M. Woodford's excellent history of Detroit makes a valuable contribution to our city's tricentennial celebration. This Is Detroit, 1701- 2001 illuminates Detroit's rich heritage and central importance-especially during the twentieth century, when our gifts to the world were nothing less than the auto industry, collective bargaining, the Arsenal of Democracy, and Motown music.---Dennis W. Archer "Former Mayor, City of Detroit"

Of all the mainstream text format history books written about Detroit in the past 50 years . . . This is Detroit is one of the best and most comprehensive efforts. It also has many wonderful photographs, some of which have never been published before outside of newspapers.-- "Dearborn Press & Guide"