Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America
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"The definitive account of how and why the coal trade developed as it did in Virginia and Pennsylvania. This is history -- political, economic, and cultural history -- at its finest." -- John Lauritz Larson, Purdue University
Introduction : the political economy of coal11The intersection of politics and geology : America's first coal trade122The Commonwealth's fuel : the rise of Pennsylvania anthracite483Trunk and branch : state internal improvement networks and the coal trade844"Hidden treasures" and nasty politics : antebellum geological surveys in Pennsylvania and Virginia1195Miners without souls : corporations and coal in Pennsylvania and Virginia1526Three separate paths : the impact of the Civil War189Epilogue : capture and confusion223
