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- Title
THE RUINED GARDEN AT HALF A CENTURY LEO MARX'S THE MACHINE IN THE GARDEN.
- Authors
ROBINSON, DAVID M.
- Abstract
The article discusses the way in which American studies scholar Leo Marx argued for the importance of pastoralism to American identity and intellectual history in his 1964 work "The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America." It is argued that Marx's pastoralism was not sentimental in nature, as he saw industrialization as important to U.S. history. Also noted is the impact of his work on the development of the American environmental movement of the 1980s.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MARX, Leo, b. 1919; MACHINE in the Garden: Technology &; the Pastoral Ideal in America, The (Book); PASTORAL societies; INDUSTRIALIZATION; UNITED States civilization; INTELLECTUAL history; ENVIRONMENTALISM; AMERICAN studies
- Publication
Reviews in American History, 2013, Vol 41, Issue 4, p571
- ISSN
0048-7511
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/rah.2013.0105