[PDF.54xx] America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings (MIT Press)

America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings (MIT Press)

[PDF.gl08] America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings (MIT Press)

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 | #556578 in Books |  2004-09-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.90 x6.00l,1.13 | File type: PDF | 383 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| revealing engagement of "technological narratives" and their counternarratives|By Wes Howard-Brook|As the internet, cell phone and laptop continue to be proclaimed and experienced as uniters of a global social and economic world, David Nye's gathering of the narratives of earlier technologies and their world shaping capacities is both timely and revealing.

From the A| ||The axe, the mill, the canal, and the railroad: From the grid to ecofeminism, David Nye's America as Second Creation offers a new, far-ranging, and detail-rich account of the changing technological foundation stories that have accompanied and helped s

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 Am...

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