The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
Attempts to reconcile two very different images of American life.
Attempts to reconcile two very different images of American life.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780195007381 (0195007387)
Publish date: December 31st 1967
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pages no: 392
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Science,
Technology,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Philosophy,
American History,
Theory
The central question on which this book is based on, as I understood, was where exactly does the modern-day American's belief that everything related to urban centres has negative connotations and living a simple lifestyle in a rustic setting is ideal originate, and what it says about the American n...
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