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Contents: Introduction; Biological exchange: Diffusion of mesoAmerican food complex to southeastern Europe, Jean Andrews; The rise of maize as a major crop plant in the Philippines, J. E. Spencer; Landscape, system, and identity in the post-conquest Andes, Daniel W. Gade; Bison ecology and bison diplomacy: the southern plains from 1800-1850, Dan Flores; Environmental change and social change in the Valle del Mezquital, Mexico, 1521-1600, Elinor G. K. Melville; Indigenous and colonial land-use systems in Indo-oceanian savannas: the case of New Caledonia, Jacques Barrau; Exploitation: Landscape of conquest: frontier water alienation and Khoikhoi strategies of survival, 1652-1780, Leonard Guelke and Robert Shell; Fuelwood in colonial Brazil: the economic consequences of fuel depletion for the Bahian Recôncavo, 1549-1820, Shawn W. Miller; Ax or plow? Significant colonial landscape alteration rates in the Maryland and Virginia tidewater, David O. Percy; Human influences on the pine and laurel forests of the Canary Islands, James J. Parsons; From hands to tutors: African expertise in the South Carolina rice economy, Judith A. Carney; Environmental change in colonial New Mexico, Robert MacCameron; Conservation: Saw several finners but no whales: the Greenland Right Whale (Bowhead) - an assessment of the biological basis of the northern whale fishery during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, Chelsey W. Sanger; Some conservation schemes of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1821-50: an examination of the problems of resource management in the fur trade, Arthur J. Ray; Forest management and exploitation in colonial Java, 1677-1897, Peter Boomgaard; Conserving Eden: (the European) East India companies and their environmental policies on St. Helena, Mauritius and in western India, 1660-1854, Richard Grove; Index.