Introduction -- Living from the land, c.1500-1620 -- Governing the woods, c.1500-1700 -- Ambition and experiment, c.1590-1740 -- Paths to sustained growth, c.1650-1760 -- Nature translated, c.1670-1830 -- Theories of circulation, c.1740-1800 -- Political economies of nature, c.1760-1840 --...

Unsustainability as a problem of political economy -- Ecological materialities of the global economy -- Imperial ecologies -- Ecological contestations of the global economy -- Neoliberal ecologies -- Ecological transformations and co-optations