The machine in the garden
Subtitle: technology and the pastoral ideal in America
By: Leo Marx.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
Subjects: Nature -- Social aspects -- United States; Technology -- Social aspects -- United States; United States -- Civilization
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: 1964.