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"Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery."
- C. C. Colton
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Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
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| | by Leo Marx
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ZIN Product Number: 10036998
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 2nd ed., 430 pages
Edition: 35TH
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019513351X
Release Date: Jan 2, 1995
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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 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.
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The Machine in the Garden attempts to reconcile two very different images of American life.
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This is a major book...[it has] earned for Mark a place in the first rank of Americanists...infectious. —Henry Nash Smith
The kind of book that sustains one's faith in the vitality of contemporary American scholarship. —Neil Comtton
| |  | | | | I | Sleepy Hollow, 1844 | | | II | Shakespeare's American Fable | | | III | The Garden | | | IV | The Machine | | | V | Two Kingdoms of Force | | | VI | Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes | | | Afterword | | | Notes | | | Acknowledgments | | | Index | |
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