The Machine in the Garden : Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Theory
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Author: Leo Marx ISBN: 9780199839186
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Publication: December 31, 1967
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA Language: English
Author: Leo Marx
ISBN: 9780199839186
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication: December 31, 1967
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English

For 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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For 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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