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The Matter of History - How Things Create the Past (Paperback)
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The Matter of History - How Things Create the Past (Paperback)
Series: 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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