America as second creation : technology and narratives of new beginnings /

"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 railroa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nye, David E., 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : MIT Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Frontier and pioneer life > United States.
Frontier and pioneer life > United States > Historiography.
Technology > Social aspects > United States > History.
Technology > Social aspects > United States > Historiography.
Land settlement > United States > History.
Land settlement > United States > Historiography.
National characteristics, American.
Regions & Countries > Americas.
History & Archaeology.
United States > General.
Colonisation intérieure > États-Unis > Histoire.
Colonisation intérieure > États-Unis > Historiographie.
HISTORY > State & Local.
Colonization
Discoveries in geography
Frontier and pioneer life
Frontier and pioneer life > Historiography
Historical geography
Land settlement
Land settlement > Historiography
National characteristics, American
Technology > Social aspects
Technologie.
Kolonisten.
Ontginning.
Sociale verandering.
United States > Discovery and exploration.
United States > Colonization.
United States > Historical geography.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
History
Geschiedenis (vorm)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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