Diamonds in the rough : a history of Alabama's Cahaba coal field / James Sanders Day.
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TextPublisher: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations, portraitsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780817386740 (e-book)
- 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
- 333.8/220976178 23
- TN805.A6 D28 2013eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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