Sean Adams
Office: 217 Keene-Flint
Phone: (352) 273-3354
Fax: (352) 392-6927
Email: spadams@history.ufl.edu
Website: 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 recent 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. He also serves as a consulting editor for the Frederick Douglass Papers and was an assistant editor for Yale's recent edition of Douglass's second autobiography, My Bondage and My Freedom. His current research interests include the history of energy consumption in the United States and early economic development in Florida. Dr. Adams teaches courses in nineteenth-century America history, slavery and abolition, the Industrial Revolution and the history of American capitalism.
