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Informationen zum Autor Joseph A. Amato is Dean of Rural and Regional Studies at Southwest State University in Marshall! Minnesota. Some of his most recent titles include Golf Beats Us All (So We Love It) (1997); The Decline of Rural Minnesota (1993); The Great Jerusalem Artichoke Circus: The Buying and Selling of the American Rural Dream (1993); and Victims and Values: A History and Theory of Suffering (1990). Klappentext Until recently, dust and smallness coincided in the experience and thought of Western people, as they still do for many nonindustrial and rural peoples of the world. This history of the small defines this coincidence and traces the divergence of dust and smallness in the twentieth century, when dust lost its place as a fundamental condition of human life. Zusammenfassung Examining a thousand years of Western civilization - from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to the modern worlds of nanotechnology and viral diseases - this title offers a story of the genesis of the microcosm. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword! by Jeffrey Burton Russell Introduction: Little Things Mean a Lot 1. Of Times When Dust Was the Companion of All 2. Old Metaphors and New Measures of the Microcosm 3. Early Discernment of the Minute 4. The Great Cleanup 5. Atoms and Microbes: New Guides to the Small and Invisible 6. Discerning the Invisible for the Good of the Nation 7. Lighting Up the Microcosm 8. The Snake Still Lurks Conclusion: Who Will Tremble at These Marvels? Notes Bibliographic Essay Personal Thoughts and Thanks
