The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in AmericaFor 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--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances, and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully 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 new edition is appearing in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Marx's classic text. It features a new afterword by the author on the process of writing this pioneering book, a work that all but founded the discipline now called American Studies. |
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... — one literary and the other in essence political — the ideal has figured in the American view of life which is, in the widest sense, the subject of this book. 3 My purpose is to describe and evaluate the uses of I: Sleepy Hollow, 1844.
... — one literary and the other in essence political — the ideal has figured in the American view of life which is, in the widest sense, the subject of this book. 3 My purpose is to describe and evaluate the uses of I: Sleepy Hollow, 1844.
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Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx. My purpose is to describe and evaluate the uses of the pastoral ideal in the interpretation of American experience. I shall be tracing its adaptation to the conditions of life in the ...
Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx. My purpose is to describe and evaluate the uses of the pastoral ideal in the interpretation of American experience. I shall be tracing its adaptation to the conditions of life in the ...
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... describe the outlook of a new kind of man, “a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world”: The world is a civilised one, its inhabitant is not: he does not see the civilisation of the world around him, but he uses it as if ...
... describe the outlook of a new kind of man, “a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world”: The world is a civilised one, its inhabitant is not: he does not see the civilisation of the world around him, but he uses it as if ...
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... describe an event which points to an answer. Although it is an episode in the life of a writer who was to become famous, it is in other respects a typical and indeed commonplace event of the time. No doubt most of the writer's ...
... describe an event which points to an answer. Although it is an episode in the life of a writer who was to become famous, it is in other respects a typical and indeed commonplace event of the time. No doubt most of the writer's ...
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... describes the setting, known in the neighborhood as “Sleepy Hollow”: ... a shallow space scooped out among the woods, which surround it on all sides, it being pretty nearly circular, or oval, and two or three hundred yards—perhaps four ...
... describes the setting, known in the neighborhood as “Sleepy Hollow”: ... a shallow space scooped out among the woods, which surround it on all sides, it being pretty nearly circular, or oval, and two or three hundred yards—perhaps four ...
Contents
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The Garden | 73 |
The Machine | 145 |
Two Kingdoms of Force | 227 |
Epilogue The Garden of Ashes | 354 |
AFTERWORD | 367 |
NOTES | 387 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 407 |
INDEX | 409 |
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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx Limited preview - 2000 |
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx Limited preview - 2000 |
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