TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nye,David E.
TI  - America as second creation: technology and narratives of new beginnings 
SN  - 0262640597 (pbk.)
AV  - E179.5 .N94 2004
U1  - 973.5 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass., London
PB  - MIT
KW  - Frontier and pioneer life
KW  - United States
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Technology
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Land settlement
KW  - National characteristics, American
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - Colonization
KW  - Historical geography
N1  - 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
ER  -