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"The axe, the mill, the canal, and the railroad: From the grid to ecofeminism, David Nye's America as Second Creation offers a new, far-ranging, and detail-rich account of the changing technological foundation stories that have accompanied and helped shape US culture, and of the counternarratives that have challenged the dominant ideology."
--Werner Sollors, Harvard University, and author of *Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture*
"Pathbreaking, richly researched -- one cannot read *America as Second Creation* without seeing our history, and our present-day problems, with fresh eyes. Nye brilliantly deconstructs the longstanding American belief that technology, from the humble woodsman's ax and water-powered mill to the transcontinental railroads and gigantic irrigation projects, wrought a 'second creation' and improved on God's original handiwork."
--Joseph J. Corn, Department of History, Stanford University
"*America as Second Creation* brilliantly reworks Leo Marx's Machine in the Garden thesis in the light of four decades of scholarship on technology, environment and American culture. David Nye's dissection of America's foundation narratives - and their simultaneously elaborated counter-narratives - is masterly. Log cabin, mill, canal and railroad, irrigation and river regulation: he shows how each technology has been mythologized to account for the triumph, or disaster, of American social and environmental making. Leo Marx's machine has been reassembled, his garden re-fertilized, their shared story re-energized."
--Denis Cosgrove, Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles
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