Europe's River: the Rhine as prelude to transnational cooperation and the Common Market / Mark Cioc -- National sovereignty, the International Whaling Commission, and the Save the Whales movement / Kurk Dorsey -- Global borders and the fish that ignore them: the Cold War roots of overfishing / Carmel Finley -- Making parks out of making wars: transnational nature conservation and environmental diplomacy in the twenty-first century / Greg Bankoff -- Going global after Vietnam: the end of Agent Orange and the rise of an international environmental regime / David Zierler -- The paradox of US pesticide policy during the age of ecology / David Kinkela -- The imperial politics of hurricane prediction: from Calcutta and Havana to Manila and Galveston, 1839-1900 / Gregory T. Cushman -- Biological control, transnational exchange, and the construction of environmental thought in the United States, 1840-1920 / James E. McWilliams -- Bird day: promoting the gospel of kindness in the Philippines during the American occupation / Janet M. Davis -- Salmon migrations, Nez Perce nationalism, and the global economy / Benedict J. Colombi -- The Brazilian Amazon and the transnational environment, 1940-1990 / Seth Garfield -- International trash and the politics of poverty: conceptualizing the transnational waste trade / Emily Brownell -- Afterword: international systems and their discontents.