The machine in the garden : technology and the pastoral ideal in America / Leo Marx.

Main entry:

Marx, Leo, 1919-2022.

Title & Author:

The machine in the garden : technology and the pastoral ideal in America / Leo Marx.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1964.

Description:

392 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Series:

A Galaxy book

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-384) and index.
Sleepy Hollow, 1844 -- Shakespeare's American fable -- The garden -- The machine -- Two kingdoms of force -- Epilogue: The garden of ashes.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0195007387 (pbk.)
9780195007381 (pbk.)
019500003X
9780195000030
019513351X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780195133516
0195133501
9780195133509

Subject:

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Criticism and interpretation.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Criticism and interpretation.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Nature Social aspects United States.
Technology Social aspects United States.
Nature.
Nature Aspect social États-Unis.
Civilization
Nature Social aspects
Technology Social aspects
Geschichte
Literatur
Natur
Technik
United States Civilization.
États-Unis Civilisation.
United States

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 109546
Call No.: E169.1.M3 1964
Copy: c. 1
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

Location: Library main 224564
Call No.: E169.1.M3 1964
Copy: c. 2
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available

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