America as second creation : technology and narratives of new beginnings / David E. Nye.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, 2004Description: x, 371 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 0262640597 (pbk.)
- 9780262640596 (pbk.)
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Historiography
- Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- Historiography
- Land settlement -- United States -- History
- Land settlement -- United States -- Historiography
- National characteristics, American
- United States -- Discovery and exploration
- United States -- Colonization
- United States -- Historical geography
- 973.5 22
- E179.5 .N94 2004
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 973.5 NYE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A425506B |
Originally published: 2003.
In the American beginning -- Preconditions -- 1. Narrating the assimilation of nature -- 2. Surveying the ground -- First narratives: the axe -- 3. Axe, clearing, cabin -- The nurturing forest -- Second narrative: the mill -- 5. The mill, or "natural power" -- Pollution and class conflict -- Third narrative: the canal and the railroad -- 7. "Let us conquer space" -- 8. "The route of superior desolation" -- Fourth narrative: irrigation -- 9. "Conquered rivers are better servants than wild clouds" -- 10. Water monopoly: Federal irrigation and factories in the field -- Metannarrative: synthesis and rebuttal -- 11. Progress, or entropy? -- Second creation, conservation, and wilderness.
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