{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "sophisticated opinion, 2007: these books examining vast swaths of history by reference to a single commodity \u2013 sugar, salt, cod...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/175487876013/", "html": "<p class=\"npf_chat\" data-npf='{\"subtype\":\"chat\"}'><b>sophisticated opinion, 2007:</b> these books examining vast swaths of history by reference to a single commodity \u2013 sugar, salt, cod \u2013 may bring the new academic focus on social and material history to a popular audience, but through a reductionist, monocausal frame that flatters readers\u2019 desires to feel wisely above the fray of humanity more than delivering real insight</p><p class=\"npf_chat\" data-npf='{\"subtype\":\"chat\"}'><b>also sophisticated opinion, 2007:</b> lead. The entirety of postwar American criminal policy and urban policy and thus domestic policy and party alignment and politics generally comes down to the use of lead in paint and gasoline</p>"}