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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... progress. Anyone who shares their assumptions is likely to find this judgment highly persuasive. They demonstrate that in public discourse, at least, this ideal has appeared with increasing frequency in the service of a reactionary or ...
... progress. Anyone who shares their assumptions is likely to find this judgment highly persuasive. They demonstrate that in public discourse, at least, this ideal has appeared with increasing frequency in the service of a reactionary or ...
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... progress “expand and come to dominate the society.” In America, according to Rostow, the take-off. * The device figures what Erwin Panofsky calls a discrepancy “between the supernatural perfection of an imaginary environment and the ...
... progress “expand and come to dominate the society.” In America, according to Rostow, the take-off. * The device figures what Erwin Panofsky calls a discrepancy “between the supernatural perfection of an imaginary environment and the ...
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... progress — not merely technological progress, but the overall progress of the race. Hawthorne's sketch turns upon the idea of the new machine as a vehicle for an illusory voyage of salvation whose darkest meanings are reserved for ...
... progress — not merely technological progress, but the overall progress of the race. Hawthorne's sketch turns upon the idea of the new machine as a vehicle for an illusory voyage of salvation whose darkest meanings are reserved for ...
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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 |
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