(BQ) Part 1 book "America as second creation" has contents: Narrating the assimilation of nature, surveying the ground, the nurturing forest, pollution and class conflict, axe, clearing, cabin, the mill or “natural power”,.and other contents. | America as Second Creation This page intentionally left blank America as Second Creation Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings David E. Nye The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. Set in Sabon by Graphic Composition, Inc. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nye, David E., 1946– America as Second Creation: Technology and Narratives of New Beginnings / David E. Nye p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–262–14081–0 (hc.: alk. paper) 1. Frontier and pioneer life — United States. 2. Frontier and pioneer life — United States — Historiography. 3. Technology — Social aspects — United States — History. 4. Technology — Social aspects — United States — Historiography. 5. Land settlement — United States — History. 6. Land settlement — United States — Historiography. 7. National characteristics, American. 8. United States — Discovery and exploration. 9. United States — Colonization. 10. United States — Historical geography. I. Title. N94 .
