Governing the environment in the early modern world: theory and practice

1. Climate, travel and colonialism in the early modern world / Rebecca Earle -- 2. Jean Bodin and the idea of anachorism / Richard Spavin -- 3. Marshes as a microclimate : governing with the environment in early modern France / Raphael Morera -- 4. Mastering north east England's "River of Tine" : efforts to manage a river's flow, functions and form, 1529-c.1800 / Leona Skelton -- 5. "Take plow and spade, build and plant and make the wasteland fruitful" : Gerrard Winstanley and the importance of labour in governing the earth / Ashley Dodsworth -- 6. Winter and discontent in early modern England / William M. Cavert -- 7. "A considerable change of climate" : glacial retreat and British policy in the early-nineteenth-century Arctic / Anya Zilberstein -- 8. "Vast factories of febrile poison" : wetlands, drainage, and the fate of American climates, 1750-1850 / Anthony E. Carlson.