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.
"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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