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03012aam a2200385Ii 4500 001 536C8EC0C38A11E7B100357297128E48 003 SILO 005 20171107010627 008 170602t20172017enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1107592704 020 $a 9781107592704 020 $a 110713417X 020 $a 9781107134171 035 $a (OCoLC)989761822 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d OCLCO $d BTCTA $d YDX $d LOA $d OCLCO $d CDX $d CBY $d GBVCP $d OCLCF $d WLU $d SILO 050 4 $a GF13 L43 2017 100 1 $a LeCain, Timothy J., $d 1960- $e author. 245 14 $a The matter of history : $b how things create the past / $c Timothy J. LeCain (Montana State University). 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xix, 346 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in Environment and History 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Fellow travelers: the nonhuman things that make us human -- We never left Eden: the religious and secular marginalization of matter -- Natural-born humans: a neo-materialist theory and method of history -- The longhorn: the animal intelligence behind American open-range ranching -- The silkworm: the innovative insects behind Japanese modernization -- The copper atom: conductivity and the great convergence of Japan and the West -- The matter of humans: beyond the anthroposcene and toward a new humanism -- Index. 520 8 $a 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'. 650 0 $a Human ecology $x History. 650 0 $a Material culture. 650 0 $a Globalization $x History. 880 4 $6 264-00 $c �2017 830 0 $a Studies in environment and history. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240202025737.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018014851.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20191026010427.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=536C8EC0C38A11E7B100357297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search