Edens, islands, and early empires
Indigenous knowledge and the significance of south-west India for Portuguese and Dutch constructions of tropical nature
The English and Dutch East India companies and the seventeenth-century environmental crisis in the colonies
Stephen Hales and some Newtonian antecedents of climatic environmentalism, 1700-1763
Protecting the climate of paradise: Pierre Poivre and the conservation of Mauritius under the ancien regime
Climate, conservation and Carib resistance: the British and the forests of the eastern Caribbean, 1760-1800
The beginnings of a global environmentalism: professional science, oceanic islands, and the East India Company, 1768-1838
Diagnosing crisis: the East India Company medical services and the emergence of state conservationism in India, 1760-1857
Conclusion: The colonial state and the origins of western environmentalism.
