ISBN:
9781316460252
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Resource (xix, 346 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Studies in environment and history
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DDC:
304.209
Keywords:
Geschichte
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Globalisierung
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Human ecology / History
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Material culture
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Globalization / History
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Materialismus
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Geschichtstheorie
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Humanökologie
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Geschichtsphilosophie
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Geschichtsphilosophie
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Geschichtstheorie
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Materialismus
;
Humanökologie
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'
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10.1017/9781316460252
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