The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in AmericaOxford University Press, 24.02.2000 - 430 Seiten 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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... European mind was dazzled by the prospect. With an unspoiled hemisphere in view it seemed that mankind actually might realize what had been thought a poetic fantasy. Soon the dream of a retreat to an oasis of harmony and joy was removed ...
... European mind was dazzled by the prospect. With an unspoiled hemisphere in view it seemed that mankind actually might realize what had been thought a poetic fantasy. Soon the dream of a retreat to an oasis of harmony and joy was removed ...
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... Europe and come down to the present—to, say, the death of Robert Frost in 1963. But I have chosen not to attempt anything so ambitious. Instead, I propose to concentrate upon selected examples, “some versions,” as William Empson might ...
... Europe and come down to the present—to, say, the death of Robert Frost in 1963. But I have chosen not to attempt anything so ambitious. Instead, I propose to concentrate upon selected examples, “some versions,” as William Empson might ...
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... European who finds himself living in a prehistoric wilderness. Prospero's situation is in many ways the typical situation of voyagers in newly discovered lands. I am thinking of the remote setting, the strong sense of place and its hold ...
... European who finds himself living in a prehistoric wilderness. Prospero's situation is in many ways the typical situation of voyagers in newly discovered lands. I am thinking of the remote setting, the strong sense of place and its hold ...
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... European society; here was a landscape untouched by history—nature unmixed with art. The new continent looked, or so ... Europeans never had agreed about the nature of nature; nor did they now agree about America. The old conflict in ...
... European society; here was a landscape untouched by history—nature unmixed with art. The new continent looked, or so ... Europeans never had agreed about the nature of nature; nor did they now agree about America. The old conflict in ...
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... Europe that most abound, find such difference as were incredible to be written. Every detail reinforces the master image: Virginia is a land of plenty; the soil is “the most plentifull, sweete, fruitfull, and wholsome of all the worlde ...
... Europe that most abound, find such difference as were incredible to be written. Every detail reinforces the master image: Virginia is a land of plenty; the soil is “the most plentifull, sweete, fruitfull, and wholsome of all the worlde ...
Inhalt
3 | |
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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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2000 |
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