Sean Adams
Office: 217 Keene-Flint
Phone: (352) 273-3354
Fax: (352) 392-6927
spadams@ufl.edu
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/spadams/
Mailing address:
Department of History
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117320
Gainesville, FL 32611-7320
Sean Patrick Adams (Ph.D. Wisconsin, 1999) is a historian of American political economy, with a particular emphasis upon the Industrial Revolution. His first book, Old Domionion, Industrial Commonwealth: Coal, Politics, and Economy in Antebellum America (Johns Hopkins, 2004) is a comparative study of industrial development in Pennsylvania and Virginia during the nineteenth century. His recent publications include The Early American Republic: A Documentary Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) and “Warming the Poor and Building Consumers: Fuel Philanthropy in the Early Republic’s Urban North,” Journal of American History 95 (June 2008): 69-94. He is currently working on a study of domestic heating in nineteenth-century America and the history of an antebellum iron furnace community in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Dr. Adams teaches courses in nineteenth-century American history, slavery and abolition, and the history of American capitalism.
