Seeing Underground: Maps, Models, and Mining Engineering in America (Mining and Society Series)

Digging mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times, and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War, little mining was deep enough to require maps. However, the major finds of the mid-nineteenth century, such as the Comstock Lode, were vastly larger than any before in America. In Seeing Underground, Nystrom argues that, as industrial mining came of age in the United States, the development of maps and models gave power to a new visual culture and allowed mining engineers to advance their profession, gaining authority over mining operations from the miners themselves. Starting in the late nineteenth century, mining engineers developed a new set of practices, artifacts, and discourses to visualize complex, pitch-dark three-dimensional spaces. These maps and models became necessary tools in creating and controlling those spaces. They made mining more understandable, predictable, and profitable. Nystrom shows that this new visual culture was crucial to specific developments in American mining, such as implementing new safety regulations after the Avondale, Pennsylvania fire of 1869 killed 110 men and boys; understanding complex geology, as in the rich ores of Butte, Montana; and settling high-stakes litigation, such as the Tonopah, Nevada, Jim Butler v. West End lawsuit, which reached the US Supreme Court. Nystrom demonstrates that these neglected artifacts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have much to teach us today. The development of a visual culture helped create a new professional class of mining engineers and changed how mining was done. Seeing Undergound is the winner of the 2015 Mining History Association’s Clark Spence Award for the best book on mining history.

History

Nystrom, Eric C.

Americas

University of Nevada Press

War, Judgment, And Memory In The Basque Borderlands, 1914-1945 (The Basque Series)

During the first half of the twentieth century, the French Basque province of Xiberoa was a place of refuge, conflict, and foreign occupation. With the liberation of France in 1944, many Xiberoans faced new conflicts arising from legal and civic judgments made during Vichy and German occupation. War, Judgment, and Memory in the Basque Borderlands traces the roots of their divided memories of the era to local and official interpretations of judgment, behavior, and justice during those troubled times.   In order to understand how the Great War affected the Xiberoan Basques’ perceptions of themselves, Ott contrasts the experiences of people in four different communities located within a fifteen-mile radius. The author also examines how the disruption during the interwar years affected intracommunity relations during the Occupation, the Liberation, and its aftermath. This narrative reveals the diverse ways in which Basques responded to civil war, world war, and displacement, and to one another.

War, Judgment, and Memory in the Basque Borderlands, 1914-1945 (The Basque Series)

Ott, Sandra

Europe

It goes without saying that the story behind the written story is an achievement in itself. Rarely has this been more true than in author Margaret Marean Wheat's case.

Survival Arts of the Primitive Paiutes

Politics & Social Sciences

Wheat, Margaret M.

Social Sciences

The Nevada Constitution;: Origin and growth (Nevada studies in history and political science)

Science & Math

Bushnell, Eleanore

History & Philosophy

Diamondfield Jack; a study in frontier justice, (The Lancehead series: Nevada and the West)

Grover, David H.

Rules & Procedures

The Nevada adventure;: A history,

Hulse, James W.

Silver and Politics in Nevada: 1892-1902 (American Arts Series/University of Delaware Press Books)

Business & Money

Glass, Mary Ellen

Economics

Lincoln County, Nevada: 1864-1909;: History of a mining region, (Nevada studies in history and political science)

James W. Hulse

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The Journals of Alfred Doten, 1849-1903 - in 3 Volumes

Doten, Alfred) Van Tilburg Clark, Walter( Eitor)d

World

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