From the Book - First American edition.
The world from the dawn of time (c.4.5 bn-c.7m BC)
On the origins of our species (c.7m-c.12,000 BC)
Human interactions with ecologies (c.12,000-c.3500 BC)
The first cities and trade networks (c.3500-c.2500 BC)
On the risks of living beyond one's means (c.2500-c.2200 BC)
The first age of connectivity (c.2200-c.800 BC)
Regarding nature and the divine (c.1700-c.300 BC)
The steppe frontier and formation of empires (c.1700-c.300 BC)
The roman warm period (c.300 BC-AD c.500)
The crisis of late antiquity (AD c.500- c.600)
The golden age of empire (c.600- c.900)
The medieval warm period (c.900- c.1250)
Disease and the formation of a new world (c.1250- c.1450)
On the expansion of ecological horizons (c.1400- c.1500)
The fusion of the old and the new worlds (c.1500- c.1700)
On the exploitation of nature and people (c.1650- c.1750)
The little ice age (c.1550- c.1800)
Concerning great and little divergences (c.1600- c.1800)
Industry, extraction and the natural world (c.1800- c.1870)
The age of turbulence (c.1870- c.1920)
Fashioning new utopias (c.1920- c.1950)
Reshaping the global environment (the mid-twentieth century)
The sharpening of anxieties (c.1960- c.1990)
On the edge of ecological limits (c.1990- today)
