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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... pastoral ideal in America/Leo Marx p. cm. Includes bibliographic references and index. ISBN 0-19-513351-X (pbk.) ISBN 0-19-5}3350-? 1. United States—Civilization. 2. Nature—Social aspects—United States. 3. Technology—Social aspects ...
... pastoral ideal in America/Leo Marx p. cm. Includes bibliographic references and index. ISBN 0-19-513351-X (pbk.) ISBN 0-19-5}3350-? 1. United States—Civilization. 2. Nature—Social aspects—United States. 3. Technology—Social aspects ...
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... pastoral ideal has been used to define the meaning of America ever since the age of discovery, and it has not yet lost its hold upon the native imagination. The reason is clear enough. The ruling motive of the good shepherd, leading ...
... pastoral ideal has been used to define the meaning of America ever since the age of discovery, and it has not yet lost its hold upon the native imagination. The reason is clear enough. The ruling motive of the good shepherd, leading ...
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Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx. My purpose is to describe and evaluate the uses of the pastoral ideal in the interpretation of American experience. I shall be tracing its adaptation to the conditions of life in the ...
Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx. My purpose is to describe and evaluate the uses of the pastoral ideal in the interpretation of American experience. I shall be tracing its adaptation to the conditions of life in the ...
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Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx. influential than in the realm of imaginative expression, There can be little doubt that it affects the nation's taste in serious literature, reinforcing the legitimate respect ...
Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx. influential than in the realm of imaginative expression, There can be little doubt that it affects the nation's taste in serious literature, reinforcing the legitimate respect ...
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Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx. is in the Eclogues that the political overtones of the pastoral situation become evident. In the background of the first eclogue, sometimes called “The Dispossessed,” there was a ...
Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America Leo Marx. is in the Eclogues that the political overtones of the pastoral situation become evident. In the background of the first eclogue, sometimes called “The Dispossessed,” there was a ...
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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