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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... industrial, nucleararmed society? The answer to this central question must start with the distinction between two kinds of pastoralism—one that is popular and sentimental, the other imaginative and complex. l The first, or sentimental ...
... industrial, nucleararmed society? The answer to this central question must start with the distinction between two kinds of pastoralism—one that is popular and sentimental, the other imaginative and complex. l The first, or sentimental ...
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... industrial civililization. * When seen by critics of “mass culture,” moreover, the popular kind of American pastoralism assumes an equally pernicious, if slightly different, aspect. Then it looks like a native variant of that ...
... industrial civililization. * When seen by critics of “mass culture,” moreover, the popular kind of American pastoralism assumes an equally pernicious, if slightly different, aspect. Then it looks like a native variant of that ...
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... industrial Naturmensch bears a striking resemblance to many Americans we should not be entirely surprised. After all ... industry threaten to change . . the earth rapidly into something unrecognizable. The “reservation" is to maintain ...
... industrial Naturmensch bears a striking resemblance to many Americans we should not be entirely surprised. After all ... industry threaten to change . . the earth rapidly into something unrecognizable. The “reservation" is to maintain ...
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... industrial technology makes its appearance." The ground of Hawthorne's reaction, in other words, had been prepared by Washington Irving and Wordsworth and the “nature poets” of the previous century. In 1844, as it happens, Wordsworth ...
... industrial technology makes its appearance." The ground of Hawthorne's reaction, in other words, had been prepared by Washington Irving and Wordsworth and the “nature poets” of the previous century. In 1844, as it happens, Wordsworth ...
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... industrial versions of pastoral. (Among the more effective of the traditional counters to the pastoral dream have been certain stylized tokens of mortality. We should understand that the counterforce may impinge upon the pastoral ...
... industrial versions of pastoral. (Among the more effective of the traditional counters to the pastoral dream have been certain stylized tokens of mortality. We should understand that the counterforce may impinge upon the pastoral ...
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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