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The machine in the garden : technology and the pastoral ideal in America / Leo Marx.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 414 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 019513351X
  • 9780195133516
  • 0195133501
  • 9780195133509
Other title:
  • Technology and the pastoral ideal in America
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.460973 22
LOC classification:
  • E169.1 .M35 2000
Online resources:
Contents:
I. Sleepy Hollow, 1844 -- II. Shakespeare's American Fable -- III. The Garden -- IV. The Machine -- V. Two Kingdoms of Force -- VI. Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes -- Afterword -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: "For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define the area of American studies concerned with the connections between scientific and technological advances, and the way society and culture both shape these changes. The Machine in the Garden examines the difference between the "pastoral" and "progressive" ideals which characterized early 19th-century American culture, and which ultimately evolved into the basis for much of the environmental and nuclear debates of contemporary society.; This special edition celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of Marx's classic text, and features a new afterwordby the author on the process of writing this book."--Publisher description.
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Originally published: 1964.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Sleepy Hollow, 1844 -- II. Shakespeare's American Fable -- III. The Garden -- IV. The Machine -- V. Two Kingdoms of Force -- VI. Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes -- Afterword -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

"For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define the area of American studies concerned with the connections between scientific and technological advances, and the way society and culture both shape these changes. The Machine in the Garden examines the difference between the "pastoral" and "progressive" ideals which characterized early 19th-century American culture, and which ultimately evolved into the basis for much of the environmental and nuclear debates of contemporary society.; This special edition celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of Marx's classic text, and features a new afterwordby the author on the process of writing this book."--Publisher description.

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