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  • Home Fires

    How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century

    Series series How Things Worked
    "Easily the most thorough and best-grounded account of the coal-based system of heating in the nineteenth-century United States . . . authoritative." — The New England QuarterlyHome Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the ... Read more

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  • Old Dominion Industrial Commonwealth

    Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America

    Series series Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
    A look at the role of state policies in North-South economic divergence and in American industrial development leading up to the Civil War.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, ... Read more

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  • The American Coal Industry 1790–1902, Volume I

    Coal and the New Nation, 1790-1835

    The emergence of coal-based fuel economy over the course of the nineteenth century was one of the most significant features of America’s Industrial Revolution, but the transition from wood to mineral energy sources was a gradual one that transpired over a number of decades. The documents in these volumes recreate the institutional history of the American coal industry in the nineteenth century — ... Read more

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  • The American Coal Industry 1790–1902, Volume III

    King Coal's Uneasy Throne in America, 1870-1902

    The emergence of coal-based fuel economy over the course of the nineteenth century was one of the most significant contributions the America’s Industrial Revolution, but the transition from wood to mineral energy sources was a gradual one that transpired over a number of decades. The documents in these volumes recreate the institutional history of the American coal industry in the nineteenth ... Read more

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  • The American Coal Industry 1790-1902, Volume II

    Making Coal a Household Name, 1835-1875

    The emergence of coal-based fuel economy over the course of the nineteenth century was one of the most significant features of America’s Industrial Revolution, but the transition from wood to mineral energy sources was a gradual one that transpired over a number of decades. The documents in these volumes recreate the institutional history of the American coal industry in the nineteenth century - ... Read more

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  • A Companion to the Era of Andrew Jackson

    Edited by Sean Patrick Adams ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
    A COMPANION TO THE ERA OF ANDREW JACKSONMore than perhaps any other president, Andrew Jackson’s story mirrored that of the United States; from his childhood during the American Revolution, through his military actions against both Native Americans and Great Britain, and continuing into his career in politics. As president, Jackson attacked the Bank of the United States, railed against disunion in ... Read more

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  • Washington at the Plow

    The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery

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    The Age of Big Business, written by triple Pulitzer Prize winner Burton Jesse Hendrick using a series of individual biographies, as an enthusiastic look at the foundation of the corporation in America and the rapid rise of the United States as a world power. ... Read more

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