The Matter of History: How Things Create the Past

ISBN-13: 9781107134171 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 364 str.

Timothy J. Lecain

Opis

The Matter of History links the history of people with the history of things through a bold new materialist theory of the past.

Recenzje

'The Matter of History constitutes the first successful attempt to create an historical narrative truly grounded in a non-anthropocentric ethos, both in terms of its theoretical premises and of its methodological choices.' Caludio de Majo, Global Environment

Spis treści

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.