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Old Dominion, industrial commonwealth : coal, politics, and economy in antebellum America
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Old Dominion, industrial commonwealth : coal, politics, and economy in antebellum America

Author: Sean P Adams
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Series: Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Adams, Sean P.
Old Dominion, industrial commonwealth.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
(OCoLC)651911165
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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