The Resource America as second creation : technology and narratives of new beginnings, David E. Nye
America as second creation : technology and narratives of new beginnings, David E. Nye
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- Summary
- "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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 371 pages
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780262140812
- Label
- America as second creation : technology and narratives of new beginnings
- Title
- America as second creation
- Title remainder
- technology and narratives of new beginnings
- Statement of responsibility
- David E. Nye
- Subject
-
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Historiography
- Land settlement -- United States -- Historiography
- Land settlement -- United States -- History
- National characteristics, American
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
- Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- United States -- Colonization
- United States -- Discovery and exploration
- United States -- Historical geography
- Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- Historiography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1946-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Nye, David E.
- Dewey number
- 978/.02
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E179.5
- LC item number
- .N94 2003
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Frontier and pioneer life
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Technology
- Technology
- Land settlement
- Land settlement
- National characteristics, American
- United States
- United States
- United States
- Label
- America as second creation : technology and narratives of new beginnings, David E. Nye
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-364) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 50410434
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 371 pages
- Isbn
- 9780262140812
- Isbn Type
- (hc. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2002029564
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- America as second creation : technology and narratives of new beginnings, David E. Nye
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-364) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 50410434
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 371 pages
- Isbn
- 9780262140812
- Isbn Type
- (hc. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2002029564
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Historiography
- Land settlement -- United States -- Historiography
- Land settlement -- United States -- History
- National characteristics, American
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
- Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- History
- United States -- Colonization
- United States -- Discovery and exploration
- United States -- Historical geography
- Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- Historiography
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