The Machine in the Garden

"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 enrich - 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 differences between the "pastoral" and "progressive" ideals that characterized early 19th-century American culture, and which ultimately evolved into the basis for many of the environmental and nuclear debates of contemporary society."--Jacket.

First sentence: THE pastoral ideal has been used to define the meaning of America ever since the age discovery, and it has not yet lost its hold upon the native imagination.

Year

1964

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Editions

3

Pages

414

ISBN

9780195133516

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