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Working against prevailing attitudes that see history as an arena of texts, discourses, ideologies, and metaphors, he traces the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy through human populations in the last millennium. The result is a novel approach to the study of human societies and their always mobile, semistable forms: cities, economies, technologies, and languages.