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" The matter of history : "
Timothy J. LeCain, Montana State University.
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BL
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839038
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LeCain, Timothy J.,1960-
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The matter of history : : how things create the past /\ Timothy J. LeCain, Montana State University.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :: Cambridge University Press,, 2017.
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, ©2017
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Studies in Environment and History
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xix, 346 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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110713417X
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: 1107592704
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: 9781107134171
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: 9781107592704
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9781108294829
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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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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Globalization-- History.
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Human ecology-- History.
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Material culture.
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Geschichte
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Geschichtstheorie
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Globalization.
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Human ecology.
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Material culture.
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Materialismus
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Materialität
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304.2
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GF13.L43 2017
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