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America as second creation : technology and narratives of new beginnings

After 1776, the former American colonies started to re-imagine themselves as a unified, self-created community. Technologies had an important role in the resulting national narratives, and David Nye here explores the stories that clustered around these technologies
Print Book, English, 2004
MIT, Cambridge, Mass., 2004