Matter of History - How Things Create the Past

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The Matter of History links the history of people with the history of things through a bold new materialist theory of the past. Zusammenfassung 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'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Timothy J Lecain, Timothy J. LeCain, Timothy J. (Montana State University) Lecain
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781107134171
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13417-1
• Seiten: 364
• Serien: Studies in Environment and History; Studies in Environment and His; Studies in Environment and History; Studies in Environment and His
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; HISTORY / World, Social & cultural history, General & world history, Material Culture, Social and cultural history, General and world history, Environmental archaeology