The matter of history

• Verfasst von: LeCain, Timothy J. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The matter of history
• Titelzusatz: how things create the past
• Verf.angabe: Timothy J. LeCain, Montana State University
• Ausgabe: First published
• Verlagsort: Cambridge
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• E-Jahr: 2017
• Jahr: [2017]
• Umfang: xix, 346 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Studies in Environment and History
• ISBN: 978-1-107-59270-4
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13417-1
• ISBN: 1-107-13417-X
• ISBN: 1-107-59270-4
• Schlagwörter: (s)Geschichtstheorie / (s)Materialismus
• Schlagwörter: (s)Geschichte / (s)Materialität
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: LeCain, Timothy J., 1960 - : The matter of history. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017. - 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 346 Seiten)
• K10plus-PPN: 893992275

Abstract

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'