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The matter of history : how things create the past / Timothy J. LeCain, Montana State University.
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LeCain, Timothy J., 1960-
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English
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
©2017
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xix, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
GF13 .L43 2017
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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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Studies in environment and history
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Studies in Environment and History
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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.
Contents
Fellow travelers : the nonhuman things that make us human
We never left Eden : the religious and secular marginalization of matter
Natural-born humans : a neo-materialist theory and method of history
The longhorn : the animal intelligence behind American open-range ranching
The silkworm : the innovative insects behind Japanese modernization
The copper atom : conductivity and the great convergence of Japan and the West
The matter of humans : beyond the Anthropocene and toward a new humanism.
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ISBN
9781107134171 ((hardback))
110713417X ((hardback))
9781107592704 ((paperback))
1107592704 ((paperback))
LCCN
2017029482
OCLC
989761822
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