Lecain, Timothy James (Author)
Cambridge University Press
Edition Details: Book Series: Studies in Environment and History
Physical Details: xix + 346 pp., illustrations, bib., index
Language: English
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. (Worldcat)
...MoreReview Evan Hepler-Smith (July 2019) Review of "The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past". Environmental History (pp. 616-618).
Review Steven Lubar (October 2018) Review of "The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past". Technology and Culture (pp. 963-964).
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