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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... Railroad Yard at El Reno, Oklahoma. frontispiece Plate 2. “The Lackawanna Valley” by George Inness. facing 220 Plate 3. “American Landscape” by Charles Sheeler. facing 221 This page intentionally left blank T H E M A Contents.
... Railroad Yard at El Reno, Oklahoma. frontispiece Plate 2. “The Lackawanna Valley” by George Inness. facing 220 Plate 3. “American Landscape” by Charles Sheeler. facing 221 This page intentionally left blank T H E M A Contents.
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... railroad in 1844 — a recent and in many ways revolutionary invention — it is striking to see how little there is here that can be called “original.” One suspects indeed that if we had access to all the notebooks kept by aspiring ...
... railroad in 1844 — a recent and in many ways revolutionary invention — it is striking to see how little there is here that can be called “original.” One suspects indeed that if we had access to all the notebooks kept by aspiring ...
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... railroad through the lake country. It begins: “Is then no nook of English ground secure / From rash assault? . . .” and it ends with a plea to “thou beautiful romance / Of nature” to “protest against the wrong.” By placing the machine ...
... railroad through the lake country. It begins: “Is then no nook of English ground secure / From rash assault? . . .” and it ends with a plea to “thou beautiful romance / Of nature” to “protest against the wrong.” By placing the machine ...
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... railroad is a recent invention (the first American railroad had begun operations Sleepy Hollow, 1844 23.
... railroad is a recent invention (the first American railroad had begun operations Sleepy Hollow, 1844 23.
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... railroad had begun operations in 1829), many of the associations it is made to carry are more or less timeless features of the world, that is to say, the great world as it traditionally had been conceived in literature from the Old ...
... railroad had begun operations in 1829), many of the associations it is made to carry are more or less timeless features of the world, that is to say, the great world as it traditionally had been conceived in literature from the Old ...
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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