Introduction : ruling climates in the early modern world
Climate, travel and colonialism in the early modern world
Jean Bodin and the idea of anachorism
Marshes as a microclimate : governing with the environment in early modern France
Mastering north east England's "river of Tine"
Winter and discontent in early modern England
"Take plow and spade, build and plant and make the wasteland fruitful" : Gerrard Winstanley and the importance of labour in governing the earth
"A considerable change of climate" : glacial retreat and British policy in the early-nineteenth-century Arctic
Vast factories of febrile poison : wetlands, drainage, and the fate of American climates, 1750-1850.
