| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 133.2

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The Pennsylvania Anthracite Coal Industry, 1860–1902: Economic Cycles, Business Decision Making, and Regional Dynamics. By Richard G. Healey. (Scranton, PA: University of Scranton Press, 2008. xviii, 512 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $60.)

Much of the historiography of the Pennsylvania anthracite coal industry focuses on its social history and is rich with people-related stories. Thus, issues of ethnicity, labor-management conflict, class struggle, disasters, strikes, and unionization are well represented in the literature. Professor Richard Healey, while highly mindful of the people's history, provides a heretofore underutilized approach to studying the anthracite coal region. His highly detailed analysis focuses on business and investment decisions, land acquisition, capital speculation, cyclical capital investments, supply and demand, and other business-related factors central to the industry's development. As such, this work is largely a coal industry history, and Professor Healey's sweeping examination of the business of anthracite coal from 1860 to 1902 comprises a very significant contribution to American industrial history as a whole.

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