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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... Force 227 VI Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes 354 AFTERWORD 367 NOTES 387 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 4O7 INDEX 4O9 ILLUSTRATIONS Plate 1. The Roundhouse in the Rock Island Railroad Yard at El Reno, Oklahoma. frontispiece Plate 2. “The Lackawanna ...
... Force 227 VI Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes 354 AFTERWORD 367 NOTES 387 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 4O7 INDEX 4O9 ILLUSTRATIONS Plate 1. The Roundhouse in the Rock Island Railroad Yard at El Reno, Oklahoma. frontispiece Plate 2. “The Lackawanna ...
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... force in American life calls for an explanation. At first thought the relevance of the ancient ideal to our concerns in the second half of the twentieth century is bound to seem obscure. What possible bearing can the urge to idealize a.
... force in American life calls for an explanation. At first thought the relevance of the ancient ideal to our concerns in the second half of the twentieth century is bound to seem obscure. What possible bearing can the urge to idealize a.
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... force. The new man wants his motor-car, and enjoys it, but he believes that it is the spontaneous fruit of an Edenic tree. In the depths of his soul he is unaware of the artificial, almost incredible, character of civilisation, and does ...
... force. The new man wants his motor-car, and enjoys it, but he believes that it is the spontaneous fruit of an Edenic tree. In the depths of his soul he is unaware of the artificial, almost incredible, character of civilisation, and does ...
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... forces threatening the established order. Both responses are accommodated by the thematic structure of Virgil's poem; let us consider it in greater detail.” The poem takes the form of a dialogue between two shepherds. Tityrus, like ...
... forces threatening the established order. Both responses are accommodated by the thematic structure of Virgil's poem; let us consider it in greater detail.” The poem takes the form of a dialogue between two shepherds. Tityrus, like ...
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... force to bear upon the pastoral ideal. Divested of his land, he faces the prospect of unending anxiety, deprivation, and struggle: . . . the rest of us are off; some to foregather with the Africans and share their thirst; others to ...
... force to bear upon the pastoral ideal. Divested of his land, he faces the prospect of unending anxiety, deprivation, and struggle: . . . the rest of us are off; some to foregather with the Africans and share their thirst; others to ...
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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