Book

The Rise and Fall of King Coal

American Energy Transitions in an Age of Markets, 1800–1940

Mark Aldrich

2025

Johns Hopkins University Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

America’s Coal Age

Black gold powered the United States’ transition from backwater to global hegemon.

by Emmet Penney via The American Conservative on September 5, 2025

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