TY - BOOK AU - LeCain,Timothy J TI - The matter of history: how things create the past T2 - Studies in environment and history SN - 9781107134171 (Hardback : alk. paper) U1 - 901 PY - 2017/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University press KW - History KW - Materialism KW - Human ecology N2 - "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 organism and things help to create humans in all their dimensions, biological, social, and cultural."--Provided by publisher ER -