Cleveland: The Making of a City

Cleveland: The Making of a City
ISBN-10
0873384288
ISBN-13
9780873384285
Series
Cleveland
Category
History
Pages
1272
Language
English
Published
1990
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Author
William Ganson Rose

Description

Traces the history of the Ohio city from its days as a frontier settlement, through the coming of industrialization, to 1950.

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