The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past

New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our very idea of what it...
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Author: Timothy J. Lecain
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Language: English
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The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past by Lecain, Timothy J.

The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past

€45,21

The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past

€45,21
Author: Timothy J. Lecain
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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'.

Author: Timothy J. Lecain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/31/2017
Pages: 366
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.51w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9781107592704


Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2018

About the Author
Lecain, Timothy J.: - Timothy J. LeCain is the author of the prize-winning book Mass Destruction (2009). He was a Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany, and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Oslo, Norway. He is an Associate Professor of History at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.

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