Imprint -- Subvention -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Chapter Contributors -- Viewpoint Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Managing Human Legacies in a Changing Sea: An Introduction -- Part I. Recovering Endangered Species -- 2 What Recovery of Exploited Marine Animals Tells Us about Management and Conservation -- 3 Natural or Anthropogenic? Novel Community Reassembly after Historical Overharvest of Pacific Coast Pinnipeds -- 4 Using Disparate Datasets to Reconstruct Historical Baselines of Animal Populations -- Part II. Conserving Fisheries -- 5 Improving Fisheries Assessments Using Historical Data: Stock Status and Catch Limits -- 6 Understanding Fisheries through Historical Reconstructions: Implications for Fishery Management and Policy -- 7 Back to the Future: Integrating Customary Practices and Institutions into Comanagement of Small-scale Fisheries -- Part III. Restoring Ecosystems -- 8 Historical Information for Ecological Restoration in Estuaries and Coastal Ecosystems -- 9 Estimates of Historical Ecosystem Service Provision Can Guide Restoration Efforts -- 10 Incorporating Historical Perspectives into Systematic Marine Conservation Planning -- Part IV. Engaging the Public -- 11 Engaging Public Interest in the Ocean of the Past: The Promise of New Media -- 12 Choice without Memory: Uncovering the Narrative Potential of Historical Ecology -- Index.