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Old Dominion, industrial commonwealth : coal, politics, and economy in antebellum America
"Sean Patrick Adams compares the political economies of coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania from the late eighteenth century through the Civil War, examining the divergent paths these two states took in developing their ample coal reserves during a critical period of American industrialization. I...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Book review (H-Net) Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
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"Sean Patrick Adams compares the political economies of coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania from the late eighteenth century through the Civil War, examining the divergent paths these two states took in developing their ample coal reserves during a critical period of American industrialization. In both cases, Adams finds, state economic policies played a major role." "Using coal as a barometer of economic change, Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth addresses longstanding questions about North-South economic divergence and the role of state government in American industrial development, providing new insights for both political and economic historians of nineteenth-century America."--Jacket. |
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D., University of Wisconsin). |
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xiv, 305 p. ; 24 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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080187968X (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780801879685 (hardcover : alk. paper) |