Timothy J. LeCain (Montana State University)

The Matter of History

How Things Create the Past

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Produktbeschreibung

Part materialist manifesto, part empirical case study, and part methodological guide, The Matter of History develops a radical new post-anthropocentric understanding of the past that explains how powerful organisms and things pushed diverse nations and cultures towards a global 'Great Convergence'.

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Produktdetails

• Studies in Environment and History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 165mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781107134171
• ISBN-10: 110713417X
• Artikelnr.: 49219795

Autorenporträt

Timothy J. LeCain is the author of the prize-winning book Mass Destruction (2009). He was a Senior Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany, and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Oslo, Norway. He is an Associate Professor of History at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Fellow travelers: the non-human things that make us human; 2. We never
left Eden: the religious and secular marginalization of matter; 3. Natural
born humans: a neo-materialist theory and method of history; 4. The
longhorn: the animal intelligence behind American open range ranching; 5.
The silkworm: the innovative insects behind Japanese modernization; 6. The
copper atom: conductivity and the great convergence of Japan and the West;
7. The matter of humans: beyond the Anthropocene and towards a new
humanism.