Promotion, competition, captivity: The political economy of coal

Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 74-95

  Adams, Sean Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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