Another Civil War: Labor, Capital, and the State in the Anthracite Regions of Pennsylvania, 1840a 1868

by Grace Palladino

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Winner of the Avery O. Craven Prize of the Organization of American Historians

Another Civil War explores a tumultuous era of social change in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania. Because the Union Army depended on anthracite to fuel steam-powered factories, locomotives, and battle ships, coal miners in Schuylkill, Luzerne, and Carbon Counties played a vital role in the Northern war effort. However, that role was complicated by a history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823225917
• ISBN13: 9780823225910
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 8.9"