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846761
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Adams, Sean P.
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| Title & Author
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Old Dominion, industrial commonwealth : : coal, politics, and economy in antebellum America /\ Sean Patrick Adams.
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| Publication Statement
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Baltimore :: Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2004.
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| Series Statement
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Studies in early American economy and society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
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xiv, 305 pages ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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080187968X
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: 9780801879685
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880187968X
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| Notes
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D., University of Wisconsin).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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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Coal trade-- Pennsylvania-- History.
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Coal trade-- Virginia-- History.
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Charbon-- Industrie-- Pennsylvanie-- Histoire.
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Charbon-- Industrie-- Virginie-- Histoire.
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Coal trade.
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Kohlenhandel.
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Pennsylvania.
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Pennsylvania.
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Virginia.
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Virginia.
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| Dewey Classification
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338.2/724/0975409034
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| LC Classification
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HD9554.U63P43 2004
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NW 3200rvk
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