| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.1

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Changing Mines in America. By Peter Goin and C. Elizabeth Raymond. Santa Fe, N.M.: Center for American Places: Distributed by University of Chicago Press, 2004. xxxii + 207 pp. Bibliographical references and index. Cloth $55.00, paper $27.50.

Americans have long had an ambiguous view of mining, often simplifying mine sites as historically static moments in time, or defining them as forbidding places of waste and environmental destruction. In an innovative approach to mining history, Changing Mines in America examines eight mine areas, exploring not only the physical alterations to the land over time but the changing attitudes and uses connected to these places. This work is a collaboration between historian C. Elizabeth Raymond and photographer Peter Goin. Raymond provides an overview of the evolution of American views toward mining and a thorough historical background and analysis of changing perceptions for each mine site, while Goin contributes a wide array of high-quality photographic images taken on location. The photographs are not meant solely to illustrate the written text but, together with the essays, to argue that the multiplicity of activities and cultural meanings of any given mine site counter a simple narrative of American mining and reveal the complexity of mining landscapes.

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