The machine in the garden : technology and the pastoral ideal in America /
Technology and the pastoral ideal in America
Leo Marx.
- 414 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Originally published: 1964.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sleepy Hollow, 1844 -- Shakespeare's American Fable -- The Garden -- The Machine -- Two Kingdoms of Force -- Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes -- Afterword -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index. I. II. III. IV. V. VI.
"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.
019513351X 9780195133516 0195133501 9780195133509
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Nature--Social aspects--United States Technology--Social aspects--United States