Description: 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.
Brief description: Sean Patrick Adams is an associate professor of history at the University of Florida and author of Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America, published by Johns Hopkins.
Review Quotes: For anyone interested in state policies, paths of economic development, and antebellum political economy, this study is necessary reading.
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