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Introduction: A New Environmental History Part I: Dynamic Environments and Cultures 1. Beyond Weather: The Culture and Politics of Climate History 2. Animals and the Intimacy of History 3. Beyond Virgin Soils: Disease as Environmental History 4. Deserts 5. Seas of Grass: Grasslands in World Environmental History 6. New Patterns in Old Places: Forest History for the Global Present 7. The Tropics: A Brief History of an Environmental Imaginary Part II: Knowing Nature 8. And All Was Light? Science and Environmental History 9. Toward an Environmental History of Technology 10. New Chemical Bodies: Synthetic Chemicals, Regulation, and Human Health 11. Rethinking American Exceptionalism: Toward a Trans-National History of Parks, Wilderness, and Protected Areas 12. Restoration and the Search for Counter-Narratives 13. Region, Scenery, and Power: Cultural Landscapes in Environmental History Part III: Working and Owning 14. A Metabolism of Society: Capitalism for Environmental Historians 15. Owning Nature: Towards an Environmental History of Private Property 16. Work, Nature, and History: A Single Question, that Once Moved Like Light 17. The Nature of Desire: Consumption in Environmental History 18. Law and the Environment 19. Confluences of Nature and Culture: Cities in Environmental History Part IV: Entangling Alliances 20. Race and Ethnicity in Environmental History 21. Women and Gender: Useful Categories of Analysis in Environmental History 22. Conquest to Convalescence: Nature and Nation in United States History 23. Boundless Nature: Borders and the Environment in North America and Beyond 24. Crossing Boundaries: The Environment in International Relations 25. The Politics of Nature Index