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

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Oxford University Press, 2000 - 414 pàgines
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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Sleepy Hollow
3
Shakespeares American Fable
34
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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Sobre l'autor (2000)

Scholar, writer and educator Leo Marx was educated at Harvard University, where he received a B. A. and a Ph. D. Marx taught at the University of Minnesota, Amherst College, and MIT. The school has also created the Leo Marx Career Development Professorship in the History and Culture of Science and Technology to honor his service. Marx's works, such as "The Machine in the Garden," explore the relationship between technology and culture in the past two centuries.

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