Introduction / Alan C. Braddock and Karl Kusserow
Colonization and empire. The order of things / Alan C. Braddock ; Ordering the land / Karl Kusserow ; The trouble with empire / Karl Kusserow ; Creative matter : tracing the environmental context of materials in American art / Laura Turner Igoe ; "A knot of species" : Raphaelle Peale's 'Still life with steak' and the ecology of food / Jeffrey Richmond-Moll ; Wearing the wealth of the land : Chilkat robes and their connection to place / Miranda Belarde-Lewis ; An interview with Mark Dion / Alan C. Braddock and Karl Kusserow
Industrialization and conservation. "Man and Nature" : visualizing human impacts / Alan C. Braddock ; Icon of extinction and resilience / Alan C. Braddock ; On being still in Eden : Mesopotamia once more, with feeling / Timothy Morton ; Ghostscapes from the Forever War / Anne McClintock ; Homer Dodge Martin's landscapes in reverse / Rachael Z. DeLue ; Entanglements of land and water : picturing contingency in Martin Johnson Heade's Newburyport marshes : approaching storm / Kimia Shahi ; Turning around / Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Ecology and environmentalism. Vital forms : modernist biocentrism / Alan C. Braddock ; The big picture : American art and planetary ecology / Alan C. Braddock and Karl Kusserow ; Photography and the ecological imagination / Robin Kelsey ; Three islands : an environmental justice archipelago / Rob Nixon ; Citizenship culture and the transnational environmental commons / Fonna Forman and Teddy Cruz.