Sean Patrick Adams: 2 books

Book cover of Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth

Old Dominion, Industrial Commonwealth

Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America

by Sean Patrick Adams
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

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,...
Book cover of Home Fires

Home Fires

How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century

by Sean Patrick Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

Home 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 "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the methods that entrepreneurs...
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