The matter of history how things create the past

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 environmen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: LeCain, Timothy J., 1960- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press 2017
Colección:Studies in environment and history
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Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991009685349708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 .