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The matter of history : how things create the past / Timothy J. LeCain (Montana State University).
Author
LeCain, Timothy J., 1960-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
©2017
Description
xix, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Subject(s)
Human ecology
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History
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Material culture
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Globalization
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History
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Series
Studies in environment and history
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Studies in Environment and History
Summary note
New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our very idea of what it means to be 'human', while an explosion of neo-materialist thinking in the humanities has fostered a renewed appreciation of the formative powers of a dynamic material environment. 'The Matter of History' brings these scientific and humanistic ideas together to develop a bold new post-anthropocentric understanding of the past, one that reveals how powerful organisms and things help to create humans in all their dimensions, biological, social, and cultural. Timothy J. LeCain combines cutting-edge theory and detailed empirical analysis to explain the extraordinary late-nineteenth century convergence between the United States and Japan at the pivotal moment when both were emerging as global superpowers. Illustrating the power of a deeply material social and cultural history, 'The Matter of History' argues that three powerful things - cattle, silkworms, and copper - helped to drive these previously diverse nations towards a global 'Great Convergence'.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781107134171 ((hardback))
110713417X ((hardback))
9781107592704 ((paperback))
1107592704 ((paperback))
OCLC
989761822
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