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The matter of history : how things create the past

LeCain, Timothy J., 1960- author

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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'.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Human ecology History. / Material culture. / Globalization History.
• ISBN: 9781107134171, 110713417X, 9781107592704, 1107592704

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GF13.L43 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE