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The matter of history : how things create the past / Timothy J. LeCain, Montana State University

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Series: Studies in Environment and HistoryPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2017]Edition: First publishedDescription: xix, 346 Seiten : IllustrationenISBN:
  • 110713417X
  • 1107592704
  • 9781107592704
  • 9781107134171
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781108293020. | Erscheint auch als: The matter of history. Online-Ausgabe Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017. 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 346 Seiten)DDC classification:
  • 900
  • 901 23
RVK: RVK: NB 3100 | NB 4300 | NB 4500LOC classification:
  • D16.8
  • D
Summary: 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'Call number: Grundsignatur: 2017 A 6505Other relationships: Weitere Beziehungen: PPN: PPN: 893992275
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Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Barcode
Freihandbestand ausleihbar Bibliothek Campus Süd hist 0.42 Lesesaal Geisteswissenschaften (LSG) 2017 A 6505 Available 51831744090
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