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Civilizing the Machine Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900

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ISBN-10: 0140044159

ISBN-13: 9780140044157

Edition: 1977

Authors: John F. Kasson

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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. 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. "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,…    
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Book details

List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 1977
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/26/1977
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 28
Size: 7.00" wide x 5.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

John F. Kasson, who teaches history & American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the author of "Amusing the Million" (H&W, 1978), "Rudeness & Civility" (H&W, 1990), & "Civilizing the Machine" (H&W, 1999).

Preface to the 1999 Edition
Preface
The Emergence of Republican Technology
The Factory as Republican Community: Lowell, Massachusetts
Technology and Imaginative Freedom: R. W. Emerson
The Aesthetics of Machinery
Technology and Utopia
Notes
Index