A more granular version of regionalism, focusing on how hyper-local variations in material conditions—a single valley's microclimate, a specific hill's defensibility, a unique local mineral spring—create radically different societal outcomes even within the same broader region. It emphasizes that history is made not on continents, but in parishes, neighborhoods, and watersheds.
Theory of Locality of Material Conditions Example: In medieval Europe, a village built on a rocky hill with a freshwater spring (local material conditions) could become an independent, fortified town. A village a few miles away on a fertile floodplain might become a wealthy but vulnerable estate of a feudal lord. Their divergent political fates were dictated by a few meters of elevation and access to water.
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Fooled by Material Conditions Theory "He pulled himself up by his bootstraps, they say—ignoring that he had boots. Fooled by Material Conditions: celebrating individual effort while ignoring the material base that made effort possible. The bootstrap story is true, but only for those who have boots. Material conditions fool us into thinking everyone starts equal."
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