1st Edition
The American Coal Industry 1790–1902, Volume I Coal and the New Nation, 1790-1835
By Sean Patrick Adams
Copyright 2014
398 Pages
by
Routledge
398 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Volume 1 General Introduction, Coal and the New Nation, 1790–1835 General Introduction Introduction Selected Letters from the Papers of Henry Heth, 1800–20 Selections from the Library of Virginia’s Legislative Petition Files, 1824–36 Cadwallader D. Colden, Jeremiah F. Randolph and Hector Craig, Observations on the Intended Application of the North-American Coal & Mining Company, to the Legislature of the State of New-York. February, 1814 (1814) Rhode Island Coal Company, Observations on the Rhode Island Coal, and Certificates with Regard to its Qualities, Value, and Various Uses (1814) [Jacob Cist], Lehigh Coal. Certificates fr om a Number of Persons, Shewing the Use and Value of the Lehigh Stone Coal. With Some Prefatory Remarks (1815) [Cadwalader Evans], Address of the President and Managers of the Schuylkill Navigation Company, to the Stockholders, and to the Publick in General (1817) John Grammer, Jr, ‘Account of the Coal Mines in the Vicinity of Richmond, Virginia, Communicated to the Editor in a Letter from Mr. John Grammer, Jun.’, American Journal of Science (1819) Lackawaxen Coal Mine and Navigation Company, Address to the Public by the Lackawaxen Coal Mine and Navigation Company, Relative to the Proposed Canal fr om the Hudson to the Head Waters of the Lackawaxan River. Accompanied by Documents (1824) North American Coal Company, A Brief Sketch of the Property Belonging to the North American Coal Company, with Some General Remarks on the Subject of Coal and Coal Mines (1827) Erskine Hazard, History of the Introduction of Anthracite Coal into Philadelphia and a Letter from Jesse Fell, Esq. of Wilksbarre, on the Discovery and First Use of Anthracite in the Valley of Wyoming (1827) The Morris Canal’s War of Words ‘A Stockholder of the Morris Canal’, Letter to John Wurtz, Esq. with Case and Opinion ([1831]) 159‘A Stockholder of the Morris Canal’, A Review by a Stockholder of the Morris Canal, of the ‘Views of a Stockholder, in Relation to the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company’ (1831) George Taylor, Effect of Incorporated Coal Companies upon the Anthracite Coal Trade of Pennsylvania (1833) The Anti-Corporate Offensive Anon., Facts and Observations Relative to the Incorporation of Coal Companies (1833) Josiah White, To the Committee on Corporations of the Senate (1833) S. J. Packer, Report of the Committee of the Senate of Pennsylvania, upon the Subject of the Coal Trade (1834), extract Anon., Comparative Views of the Most Important Anthracite Collieries in Pennsylvania: Exhibiting their Avenues to Tide Water (1835), extract Editorial Notes
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