num_pages: 430
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.
language: English
title: The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
titlecomplete: The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
genres: Technology, Literary Criticism, Nature, History, Philosophy, American History, Theory, Criticism, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 573
publisher: Oxford University Press