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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... rural environment have upon the lives men lead in an intricately organized, urban, industrial, nucleararmed society? The answer to this central question must start with the distinction between two kinds of pastoralism—one that is ...
... rural environment have upon the lives men lead in an intricately organized, urban, industrial, nucleararmed society? The answer to this central question must start with the distinction between two kinds of pastoralism—one that is ...
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... rural felicity exemplified by TV westerns and Norman Rockwell magazine covers. Perhaps the most convincing testimony to the continuing appeal of the bucolic is supplied by advertising copywriters; a favorite strategy, validated by ...
... rural felicity exemplified by TV westerns and Norman Rockwell magazine covers. Perhaps the most convincing testimony to the continuing appeal of the bucolic is supplied by advertising copywriters; a favorite strategy, validated by ...
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... rural values” upon the national consciousness (Hofstadter), or to the “agrarian myth” (Hofstadter), or to the “Old Republican idyll” (Meyers), or to the “myth of the garden” (Smith), they all seem to agree that for some time now this ...
... rural values” upon the national consciousness (Hofstadter), or to the “agrarian myth” (Hofstadter), or to the “Old Republican idyll” (Meyers), or to the “myth of the garden” (Smith), they all seem to agree that for some time now this ...
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... rural. Movement toward such a symbolic landscape also may be understood as movement away from an “artificial” world, a world identified with “art,” using this word in its broadest sense to mean the disciplined habits of mind or arts ...
... rural. Movement toward such a symbolic landscape also may be understood as movement away from an “artificial” world, a world identified with “art,” using this word in its broadest sense to mean the disciplined habits of mind or arts ...
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... rural felicity. We think of Blake: And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded 18 ...
... rural felicity. We think of Blake: And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded 18 ...
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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