The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

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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, ...
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Overview

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.

The Machine in the Garden attempts to reconcile two very different images of American life.

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Editorial Reviews

Richard Sennett
Paradoxically, in rereading this seemingly old-fashioned book, I had the sensation of encountering something quite new and fresh; it is a cultural investigation rather than a critical performance...Rather than a monument to the past, The Machine in the Garden remains a timely book.
—Times Literary Supplement
Anthony Tanner
This is an important contribution to our understanding of some of the enigmas and conflicts at work in the American imagination, particularly in the 19th century.
—Encounter
Neil Comtton
thekind of book that sustains one's faith in the vitality of contemporary American scholarship.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780195133509
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 2/24/2000
  • Edition description: 2ND
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 430
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.10 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Leo Marx is Professor Emeritus of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Table of Contents

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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