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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : LeCain, Timothy J. (1960-....). Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : The matter of history [Texte imprimé] : how things create the past / Timothy J. LeCain, Montana State University
Publication : Cambridge (GB) : Cambridge University Press, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIX-346 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Collection : Studies in Environment and History
Lien à la collection : Studies in environment and history
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
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."
Sujet(s) : Écologie humaine
Matière -- Histoire
Matérialisme
Histoire universelle
Indice(s) Dewey : 907.2 (23e éd.) = Recherche historique ; 304.201 (23e éd.) = Écologie humaine - Philosophie et théorie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107134171 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45532993f
Notice n° :
FRBNF45532993
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Table des matières : 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.