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_aAmerica as second creation : _btechnology and narratives of new beginnings / _cDavid E. Nye. |
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_aCambridge, Mass. ; _aLondon : _bMIT, _c2004. |
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| 505 | 0 | _aIn 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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