The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (First Edition)

Oxford / New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Illustrated . Bound in two-toned green publisher's cloth and red paper. Covers are plain. Gilt lettering on the spine. Contents include: I) Sleepy Hollow, 1844; II) Shakespeare's American Fable; III) The Garden; IV) The Machine; V) Two Kingdoms of Force; and VI) Epilogue: The Garden of Ashes. Also contains a list of illustrations, afterward, notes and acknowledgements. Indexed. 414 pp. This book is in beautiful condition and would be fine except for the first blank flyleaf has been removed. A lovely copy. Full refund if not satisfied.<br><br>FROM THE DUST JACKET: "For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in the 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.