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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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- The political economy of coal
- The intersection of politics and geology: America's first coal trade
- The commonwealth's fuel: the rise of Pennsylvania anthracite
- Trunk and branch: state internal improvement networks and the coal trade
- "Hidden treasures" and nasty politics: antebellum geological surveys in Pennsylvania and Virginia
- Miners without souls: corporations and coal in Pennsylvania and Virginia
- Three separate paths: the impact of the civil war
- Capture and confusion.