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Canada and the United States



David E. Nye. America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2003. Pp. x, 371. $29.95.

David E. Nye is not only one of the most prolific contemporary historians of American technology and culture; he is also one of the most insightful. Based on historical sources, literary works, and visual imagery, his books are invariably readable. A case in point is Nye's latest study, wherein he continues his primary project of extending and enriching the principal themes of his mentor, Leo Marx, as presented in Marx's classic work, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (1964). . . .

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