CIVILIZING THE MACHINE PB: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900 - Softcover

Kasson, John

 
9780809016204: CIVILIZING THE MACHINE PB: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0809016206 ISBN 13: 9780809016204
Verlag: Hill and Wang, 1999

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In Civilizing the Machine, John F. Kasson asks how new technologies have affected this drive for a republican civilization-and the question is as vital now as ever.

A major theme of American history has always been the desire to achieve a genuinely republican way of life that values liberty, order, and virtue. Civilizing the Machine was an innovative and compelling work when it first appeared two decades ago: Kasson's analysis of the technical developments in transportation, communication, and manufacture from the Revolution to the of the nineteenth century showed how technologies were dealt with in sources as diverse as the debates of Hamilton and Jefferson; the factories of Lowell, Massachusetts; the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson; the prints of Currier & Ives; and the utopian and dystopian novels of Howells and Twain.

Kasson's profound, wide-ranging inquiry into this central issue in American history is now available again with a new Introduction by the author.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John F. Kasson, who teaches history and American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of Houdini, Tarzan and the Perfect Man; Amusing the Million; Rudeness and Civility; and Civilizing the Machine.

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Verlag
Hill and Wang
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0809016206
ISBN 13 
9780809016204
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
292
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