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Contents Preface ix Prologue. Two Daughters of Detroit 1 1. Riding on the Freeway: A Riff on the Place Called Motown 3 2. Sculpting Detroit: Polity and Economy Trump Geology 45 3. From Fort to Ford to . . . ? 69 4. From Old World to Old South and Old Testament 92 5. Who Will Feast on the Fruits of Labor? 109 6. Turf Wars 136 7. Wrestling for Pieces of the Proletarian Pie 167 8. Feasting on Fear 197 9. The Dynamics of Decay, Abandonment, and Bankruptcy 215 10. What Drives Detroiters? 241 11. From Motown to Mortropolis 270 Epilogue. Two Daughters of Detroit Revisited 283 Selected References 285 Index 289 Acknowledgments 303 This page intentionally left blank ...

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