Sean Patrick Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 5244428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Patrick Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS S P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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
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…
Old Dominions and Industrial Commonwealths
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, Great Britain utilized its extensive coal reserves to emerge as the world's leading industrial power. “If a patch of a few square miles has done so much for central England,” one British writer pondered in 1856, “what may fields containing many hundred square leagues do for the United States?” In the story of American coal, the two most important states on the eve of the nineteenth century …
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…
Old Dominions and Industrial Commonwealths
During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, Great Britain utilized its extensive coal reserves to emerge as the world's leading industrial power. “If a patch of a few square miles has done so much for central England,” one British writer pondered in 1856, “what may fields containing many hundred square leagues do for the United States?” In the story of American coal, the two most important states on the eve of the nineteenth century …
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…
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,…
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