Old Dominions and Industrial Commonwealths
The Political Economy of Coal in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1810–1875
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12678927 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean Patrick Adams |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 675-682 |
| Publication date | 2000-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Enterprise & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1467-2227 • E-ISSN: 1467-2235 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/es/1.4.675 |
| OpenAlex | W2147598537 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
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 were Virginia and Pennsylvania. Virginia was endowed with bituminous coal reserves in both the James River Basin and its western counties, while Pennsylvania enjoyed a virtual monopoly on American anthracite coal as well as a massive bituminous region west of the Allegheny Mountains
Anthracite · Archaeology · Bituminous coal · Coal · Coal mining · Economic history · Economics · League · Monopoly · Political science · Politics · Square (algebra · West virginia · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.05 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2004 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |