Title: Civilizing the Machine: Technology and Republican Values in America, 1776-1900
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: 1977
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0140044159
ISBN 13: 9780140044157
Binding: paperback
Condition: Fair
Weight: 16 ounces

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Literary, historical and technological sources are utilized in a study of the nineteenth-century American attempt to reconcile industrial ambition with romantic aspiration

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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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