Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America

by Sean Patrick Adams

Book Overview

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

In 1796, famed engineer and architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe toured the coal fields outside Richmond, Virginia, declaring enthusiastically, Such a mine of Wealth exists, I believe, nowhere else! With its abundant and accessible deposits, growing industries, and network of rivers and ports, Virginia stood poised to serve as the center of the young nation's coal trade. By the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080189400X
• ISBN13: 9780801894008
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher