This book is intended to provide readers with a consistently organized and condensed treatment of Michigan's history. Each of the four narrative chapters is divided into shorter chronological periods which offer fairly systematic discussions of politics, military affairs, social patterns, commerce, agriculture and industry. Statistics are used when available to convey some sense of relatively constant input on the subjects of Michigan's social and economic development. ix, 73 p. : ill. ; 23 cm., b & w photographs, index