The machine in the garden

Description

"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.

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Other Editions

• The machine in the garden: technology and the pastoral ideal in AmericaOxford University Press2000-01-01
• The machine in the gardenOxford University Press1964-01-01
• Machine in the GardenHardcoverOxford University Press1965-12-01
• The Machine in the GardenOxford University Press, USA1967-12-31
• The Machine in the GardenOxford University Press, USA1999-12-22