Seeing Underground
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Eric C. Nystrom is a historian in the College of Science and Letters at Arizona State University. He is the editor of Mining History News and the author of "Underground Photography and American Mining before 1920," which won the 2010 John Townley Award for best journal article from the Mining History Association.

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"Eric Nystrom's book is a welcome addition to understanding American underground and anthracite mining technology and engineering and its professionalization in the late nineteenth and earlier twentieth centuries. The historiographical explorations make it a valuable contribution to the history of science as well as technology."
--Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society "Seeing Underground is a gem of a book with an engaging, captivating angle: How do you visualize and imagine space where there is no light? Add to this Eric C. Nystrom's easy, jargon-free writing style and the mind of the nineteenth century mining engineer becomes a celebration of cartographic genius."
--Western Historical Quarterly "Seeing Underground is a well-argued, tightly structured study that goes beyond mining historians' usual use of the visual culture of mine maps and models as evidence to explore how this visual culture was also an actor, effecting change, not merely reflecting it. . . his (Nystrom's) work is especially valuable for linking the rise of visual culture and the rise of professions and showing how visual culture was used as a tool to gain power. Nystrom reinforces the importance of visual culture in the second half of the nineteenth century."
--The Journal of American History "Seeing Undergound is the winner of the 2015 Mining History Assoication's Clark Spence Award for the best book on mining history."
--Mining History Assoication "The book is well written, with extensive endnotes (42 pages), a bibliography (20 pages), and suitable illustrations. Highly recommended."
--Choice "Seeing Underground is an excellent addition to the literature on mining history for historians, engineers, and geologists."
--Pacific Historical Review "Seeing Underground makes a significant contribution to the history of mining and mining engineering [and] is a solid piece of scholarship on a little-studied subject."
--Technology and Culture "Eric C. Nystrom has written a history of these underground maps, of their meanings, how they were drawn, how engineers and lawyers made use of them, and how historians can make use of them. In doing so he has opened a new world of visual culture and archival sources that scholars have largely dismissed. We owe him a scholarly debt for showing their value."
--American Historical Review

"No previous historian has attempted anything like Nystrom's study. This book will be the standard reference for information on the history of mine mapping for years to come."
--Terry Reynolds, Professor of history, Emeritus, at Michigan Technological University

"There are no other works that explore maps and models and their relationship with the industrialization of mining--it is a significant contribution."
--David Wolff, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Black Hills State University

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