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Author Day, James Sanders, 1956-

Title Diamonds in the rough : a history of Alabama's Cahaba coal field / James Sanders Day.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2013]
2013

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations, portraits
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Discovering and Marketing Coal : 1815-1859 -- Mining and Mapping Coal : 1859-1883 -- Surveying and Developing the Field : 1883-1910 -- Coal Towns : 1881-1919 -- Convict Leasing : 1872-1927 -- Welfare Capitalism : 1915-1933 -- Unionism : 1878-1935 -- Decline and Demise : 1929-1976.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Browne, William Phineas, 1804-1869.
Coal mines and mining -- Alabama -- Cahaba River Region -- History -- 19th century.
Coal mines and mining -- Alabama -- Cahaba River Region -- History -- 20th century.
Coalfields -- Alabama -- Cahaba River Region -- History.
Company towns -- Alabama -- Cahaba River Region -- History.
Businessmen -- Alabama -- Cahaba River Region -- Biography.
Cahaba River Region (Ala.) -- History, Local.
Cahaba River Region (Ala.) -- Social conditions.
Cahaba River Region (Ala.) -- Economic conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Day, James Sanders. Diamonds in the rough : a history of Alabama's Cahaba coal field. Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2013] xiii, 209 pages 9780817317942 2012044797 (DLC)10759968
ISBN 9780817317942
9780817386740 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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