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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Adams, Sean P. Old Dominion, industrial commonwealth. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 (OCoLC)651911165 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sean P Adams |
| ISBN: | 080187968X 9780801879685 |
| OCLC Number: | 54349872 |
| Notes: | Based on the author's dissertation (Ph. D., University of Wisconsin). |
| Description: | xiv, 305 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia. |
| Responsibility: | Sean Patrick Adams. |
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