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9780520231955

Dust

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520231955

  • ISBN10:

    0520231953

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-11-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

Until recently, dust and smallness coincided in the experience and thought of Western people, as they still do for many nonindustrial and rural peoples of the world. This history of the small defines this coincidence and traces the divergence of dust and smallness in the twentieth century, when dust lost its place as a fundamental condition of human life.

Author Biography

Joseph A. Amato is Dean of Rural and Regional Studies at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Jeffrey Burton Russell
Introduction: Little Things Mean a Lot 1(14)
Of Times When Dust Was the Companion of All
15(21)
Old Metaphors and New Measures of the Microcosm
36(11)
Early Discernment of the Minute
47(20)
The Great Cleanup
67(25)
Atoms and Microbes: New Guides to the Small and Invisible
92(18)
Discerning the Invisible for the Good of the Nation
110(16)
Lighting Up the Microcosm
126(17)
The Snake Still Lurks
143(14)
Conclusion: Who Will Tremble at These Marvels? 157(22)
Notes 179(42)
Bibliographic Essay 221(16)
Personal Thoughts and Thanks 237

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