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- 题名/责任者:
- The matter of history : how things create the past / Timothy J. LeCain, Montana State University.
- 出版发行项:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- 出版发行项:
- 漏2017
- ISBN:
- 9781108294829
- ISBN:
- 9781107592704
- 载体形态项:
- 1 online resource (xix, 346 pages) : illustrations
- 个人责任者:
- LeCain, Timothy J., 1960- author.
- 论题主题:
- Human ecology-History.
- 论题主题:
- Material culture.
- 论题主题:
- Globalization-History.
- 中图法分类号:
- Q988-09
- 一般附注:
- Description based on print version record.
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 内容附注:
- 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.
- 摘要附注:
- 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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