America as second creation :technology and narratives of new beginnings
- 作者: Nye, David E.,
- 出版: Cambridge : MIT Press ©2003.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (x, 371 pages) :illustrations, maps.
- 標題: Frontier and pioneer life Historiography. , Kolonisten. , Frontier and pioneer life United States -- Historiography. , Colonization. , Historiography. , Colonisation intérieure États-Unis -- Historiographie. , Land settlement Historiography. , United States Colonization. , Discoveries in geography. , Social aspectsHistory. , Land settlement United States -- Historiography. , Frontier and pioneer life. , HISTORY State & Local. , Land settlement , Historical geography. , History. , Frontier and pioneer life United States. , Technology Social aspects -- United States -- History. , Technology Social aspects. , Historiographie. , State & Local. , Frontier and pioneer life , Discovery and exploration. , Social aspectsHistoriography. , Colonisation intérieure États-Unis -- Histoire. , Histoire. , United States , Land settlement. , Social aspects. , Electronic books. , Geschiedenis (vorm) , Verenigde Staten. , Regions & Countries - Americas. , HISTORY , Ontginning. , National characteristics, American. , United States - General. , Technologie. , History & Archaeology. , Land settlement United States -- History. , Colonisation intérieure , Technology Social aspects -- United States -- Historiography. , United States Discovery and exploration. , United States. , Sociale verandering. , Technology , United States Historical geography.
- ISBN: 0262263947 , 9780262263948
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-364) and index. Introduction: In the American beginning -- Narrating the assimilation of nature -- Surveying the ground -- Axe, clearing, cabin -- The nurturing forest -- The mill, or "natural power" -- Pollution and class conflict -- "Let us conquer space" -- "The route of superior desolation" -- "Conquered rivers are better servants than wild clouds" -- Water monopoly: federal irrigation and factories in the field -- Progress, or entropy? -- Conclusion: Second creation, conservation, and wilderness.
- 摘要: "After 1776, the former American colonies began to reimagine themselves as a unified, self-created community. Technologies had an important role in the resulting national narratives, and a few technologies assumed particular prominence. Among these were the axe, the mill, the canal, the railroad, and the irrigation dam. In this book David Nye explores the stories that clustered around these technologies. In doing so, he rediscovers an American story of origins, with America conceived as a second creation built in harmony with God's first creation." "Nye draws on popular literature, speeches, advertisements, paintings, and many other media to create a history of American foundation stories. He shows how these stories were revised periodically, as social and economic conditions changed, without over erasing the earlier stories entirely. The image of the isolated frontier family carving a homestead out of the wilderness with an axe persists to this day, alongside later images and narratives. In the book's conclusion, Nye considers the relation between these earlier stories and such later American developments as the conservation movement, narratives of environmental recovery, and the idealization of wilderness."--Jacket.
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An exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the land. After 1776, the former American colonies began to reimagine themselves as a unified, self-created community. Technologies had an important role in the resulting national narratives, and a few technologies assumed particular prominence. Among these were the axe, the mill, the canal, the railroad, and the irrigation dam. In this book David Nye explores the stories that clustered around these technologies. In doing so, he rediscovers an American story of origins, with America conceived as a second creation built in harmony with God's first creation. While mainstream Americans constructed technological foundation stories to explain their place in the New World, however, marginalized groups told other stories of destruction and loss. Native Americans protested the loss of their forests, fishermen resisted the construction of dams, and early environmentalists feared the exhaustionof resources. A water mill could be viewed as the kernel of a new community or as a new way to exploit labor. If passengers comprehended railways as part of a larger narrative about American expansion and progress, many farmers attacked railroad land grants. To explore these contradictions, Nye devotes alternating chapters to narratives of second creation and to narratives of those who rejected it.Nye draws on popular literature, speeches, advertisements, paintings, and many other media to create a history of American foundation stories. He shows how these stories were revised periodically, as social and economic conditions changed, without ever erasing the earlier stories entirely. The image of the isolated frontier family carving a homestead out of the wilderness with an axe persists to this day, alongside later images and narratives. In the book's conclusion, Nye considers the relation between these earlier stories and such later American developments as the conservation movement, narratives of environmental recovery, and the idealization of wilderness.
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