Sean Patrick Adam
Biographic Data
| ID | 2348766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Patrick Adam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Adam |
| SIGNATURE | ADAM S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-4505-8121 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bonds of War
Journal Article Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union Get access Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union. By David K Thomson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. xx, 268 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $29.95.) Sean Adams Sean Adams University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, editors. Slavery’s Capitalism
As historians consider calls to push their narratives onto wider chronological, geographical, and thematic stages, two historical systems that fit this bill quite neatly are slavery and capitalism. After all, each appears in a wide range of societies, spanning both centuries and oceans with ease. And although both slavery and capitalism have manifested themselves in quite different varieties, the presence of familiar markers—social death and coer…
A Nation without Borders
Steven Hahn begins and ends his impressive survey of nineteenth-century American history in an unexpected place. The borderlands between Mexico and the United States might seem an unlikely location for a sprawling examination of the evolution of the United States from the 1830s to the 1910s, but that is the entire point of A Nation without Borders. Hahn argues that empire, often under the guise of republican government, was the driving force behi…
Taconite Dreams
Minnesota's Iron Range offers a compelling case study for examining industrial decline in Jeffrey T. Manuel's Taconite Dreams. The extraction of iron ore in this immigrant mining region in northeastern Minnesota had reached its peak significance to the American economy by the early twentieth century, but the depletion of high-grade ore threatened the future of the industry. A reprieve in the fortunes of the Iron Range appeared after Edward Davis,…
Michael D. Thompson. Working on the Dock of the Bay
Integrating the experience of enslaved workers into the broader currents of labor history is an ongoing project, of which Michael D. Thompson’s Working on the Dock of the Bay: Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port is a welcome addition. In this concise, but densely evidenced, study of life and labor on Charleston’s antebellum waterfront, Thompson seeks to uncover the impact of slavery upon the strenuous work of loading and unloading…
The perils of personal capital in antebellum America
The Fredericksburg Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company's ironmaking facility, Catharine Furnace, had the look of a prime mover in antebellum Virginia's industrial sector when it opened in 1838. Its manager and principal owner, John Spotswood Wellford, successfully tapped into his social capital to secure military ordnance contracts, but in the process the firm became utterly dependent upon his ability to secure this work through personal connect…
How Choice Fueled Panic
This essay examines the role of working-class consumers in public debates over the public regulation of food and fuel markets in Philadelphia in the years leading up to the Panic of 1837. As price spikes in these necessities inflamed the cries for state authorities to insure fair prices for these goods and to put an end to the growing scale and scope of free market capitalism, these pleas went unfulfilled. Instead, urban residents saw many of the…
Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth
Warming the Poor and Growing Consumers
Residents of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia at the turn of the nineteenth century had every reason to be optimistic, as their cities blossomed as centers of commerce, culture, and industry in a young, growing nation. But no matter how rosy the future might appear, the winters of the early republic seemed to get worse and worse. Take the southernmost city of the three, Philadelphia. In the winter of 1805, when snow drifts reached thirty inches…
Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth
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 middle of the nineteenth century, however, Virginia's leadership in the A…
The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War
The role the rural South and its plantation system played in the secession of the Confederate states is well established, but historian Frank Towers contends that we should look just as closely at the South's urban centers. An exemplary feat of research, The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War sheds light on the dynamics of secession by concentrating on pivotal sociopolitical shifts in the South's three largest cities - Baltimore, New Orl…
Promotion, Competition, Captivity
“Coal is, perhaps, the most indispensable article used by man. Without it, in time, we should return to a state of barbarism.” So proclaimed the president of Pennsylvania's Pequa Railroad and Improvement Company in 1849. The importance of coal, the official explained, lay in its utility as an energy source, for which he hailed it as unsurpassed: coal was “‘hoarded labor’”—a “treasure reserved by nature to promote and perfect our civilization.” Th…
Warming the Poor and Growing Consumers
Residents of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia at the turn of the nineteenth century had every reason to be optimistic, as their cities blossomed as centers of commerce, culture, and industry in a young, growing nation. But no matter how rosy the future might appear, the winters of the early republic seemed to get worse and worse. Take the southernmost city of the three, Philadelphia. In the winter of 1805, when snow drifts reached thirty inches…
Promotion, Competition, Captivity
“Coal is, perhaps, the most indispensable article used by man. Without it, in time, we should return to a state of barbarism.” So proclaimed the president of Pennsylvania's Pequa Railroad and Improvement Company in 1849. The importance of coal, the official explained, lay in its utility as an energy source, for which he hailed it as unsurpassed: coal was “‘hoarded labor’”—a “treasure reserved by nature to promote and perfect our civilization.” Th…
Promotion, Competition, Captivity
“Coal is, perhaps, the most indispensable article used by man. Without it, in time, we should return to a state of barbarism.” So proclaimed the president of Pennsylvania's Pequa Railroad and Improvement Company in 1849. The importance of coal, the official explained, lay in its utility as an energy source, for which he hailed it as unsurpassed: coal was “‘hoarded labor’”—a “treasure reserved by nature to promote and perfect our civilization.” Th…
The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War
The role the rural South and its plantation system played in the secession of the Confederate states is well established, but historian Frank Towers contends that we should look just as closely at the South's urban centers. An exemplary feat of research, The Urban South and the Coming of the Civil War sheds light on the dynamics of secession by concentrating on pivotal sociopolitical shifts in the South's three largest cities - Baltimore, New Orl…
Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth
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 middle of the nineteenth century, however, Virginia's leadership in the A…
Warming the Poor and Growing Consumers
Residents of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia at the turn of the nineteenth century had every reason to be optimistic, as their cities blossomed as centers of commerce, culture, and industry in a young, growing nation. But no matter how rosy the future might appear, the winters of the early republic seemed to get worse and worse. Take the southernmost city of the three, Philadelphia. In the winter of 1805, when snow drifts reached thirty inches…
Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth
How Choice Fueled Panic
This essay examines the role of working-class consumers in public debates over the public regulation of food and fuel markets in Philadelphia in the years leading up to the Panic of 1837. As price spikes in these necessities inflamed the cries for state authorities to insure fair prices for these goods and to put an end to the growing scale and scope of free market capitalism, these pleas went unfulfilled. Instead, urban residents saw many of the…
The perils of personal capital in antebellum America
The Fredericksburg Iron and Steel Manufacturing Company's ironmaking facility, Catharine Furnace, had the look of a prime mover in antebellum Virginia's industrial sector when it opened in 1838. Its manager and principal owner, John Spotswood Wellford, successfully tapped into his social capital to secure military ordnance contracts, but in the process the firm became utterly dependent upon his ability to secure this work through personal connect…
Michael D. Thompson. Working on the Dock of the Bay
Integrating the experience of enslaved workers into the broader currents of labor history is an ongoing project, of which Michael D. Thompson’s Working on the Dock of the Bay: Labor and Enterprise in an Antebellum Southern Port is a welcome addition. In this concise, but densely evidenced, study of life and labor on Charleston’s antebellum waterfront, Thompson seeks to uncover the impact of slavery upon the strenuous work of loading and unloading…
Taconite Dreams
Minnesota's Iron Range offers a compelling case study for examining industrial decline in Jeffrey T. Manuel's Taconite Dreams. The extraction of iron ore in this immigrant mining region in northeastern Minnesota had reached its peak significance to the American economy by the early twentieth century, but the depletion of high-grade ore threatened the future of the industry. A reprieve in the fortunes of the Iron Range appeared after Edward Davis,…
Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, editors. Slavery’s Capitalism
As historians consider calls to push their narratives onto wider chronological, geographical, and thematic stages, two historical systems that fit this bill quite neatly are slavery and capitalism. After all, each appears in a wide range of societies, spanning both centuries and oceans with ease. And although both slavery and capitalism have manifested themselves in quite different varieties, the presence of familiar markers—social death and coer…
A Nation without Borders
Steven Hahn begins and ends his impressive survey of nineteenth-century American history in an unexpected place. The borderlands between Mexico and the United States might seem an unlikely location for a sprawling examination of the evolution of the United States from the 1830s to the 1910s, but that is the entire point of A Nation without Borders. Hahn argues that empire, often under the guise of republican government, was the driving force behi…
Bonds of War
Journal Article Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union Get access Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union. By David K Thomson. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. xx, 268 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $29.95.) Sean Adams Sean Adams University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
History (10 works) · Economic history (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · American History and Culture (8 works) · History (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works)