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    • Author/Creator:LeCain, Timothy J., 1960- author.
    • Title:The matter of history [electronic resource] : how things create the past / Timothy J. LeCain (Montana State University).
    • ISBN:9781316460252 (electronic bk.)
      1316460258 (electronic bk.)
      9781107134171
      110713417X
      9781107592704
      1107592704
    • Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
    • Copyright notice date: ©2017
    • Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 346 pages) : illustrations.
    • Links:Online book
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    • Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
    • Notes:Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
      Description based on print version record.
    • Access and use:Access restricted by licensing agreement.
    • Other formats:Original
    • Format:Book
    • Series:Studies in Environment and History
      Studies in environment and history.
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
    • Contents: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.
    • Subjects:Human ecology--History.
      Material culture.
      Globalization--History.
    • Also listed under:Cambridge University Press.