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Author Adams, Sean P.

Title Old Dominion, industrial commonwealth : coal, politics, and economy in antebellum America / Sean Patrick Adams.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
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 Moore Stacks  HD9554.U63 P43 2004    Available  ---
Description xiv, 305 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Note Based on the author's dissertation (Ph. D., University of Wisconsin)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Virgina -- Miners without souls: corporations and coal in Pennsylvania and Virginia -- Three separate paths: the impact of the civil war -- Capture and confusion.
Subject Coal trade -- Pennsylvania -- History.
Coal trade.
Pennsylvania.
History.
Coal trade -- Virginia -- History.
Virginia.
ISBN 080187968X hardcover alkaline paper

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