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America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings Book

America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings
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  • America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings
  • Written by author David E. Nye
  • Published by MIT Press, May 2003
  • An exploration of the dialogue that emerged after 1776 between different visions of what it meant to use new technologies to transform the land.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: In the American Beginning1
Preconditions
1Narrating the Assimilation of Nature9
2Surveying the Ground21
First Narrative: The Axe
3Axe, Clearing, Cabin43
4The Nurturing Forest71
Second Narrative: The Mill
5The Mill, or "Natural Power"91
6Pollution and Class Conflict117
Third Narrative: The Canal and the Railroad
7"Let Us Conquer Space"147
8"The Route of Superior Desolation"175
Fourth Narrative: Irrigation
9"Conquered Rivers Are Better Servants than Wild Clouds"205
10Water Monopoly: Federal Irrigation and Factories in the Field233
Metanarrative: Synthesis and Rebuttal
11Progress, or Entropy?261
Conclusion: Second Creation, Conservation, and Wilderness283
Notes303
Bibliography345
Index365


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