The matter of history : how things create the past

1. Verfasser: LeCain, Timothy J., 1960- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Umfang/Format: xix, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Studies in environment and history
Schlagworte:
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.