Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of maps -- Series editors' preface -- Preface -- The nature of environmental history: the United States and South Africa compared -- The comparison -- The frontier environment -- Hunting and animals: from game to wildlife -- Settler hunting -- Hunting controls -- The fall and rise of trees: forests, felling and forestry -- Trees and people -- Forestry and conservation -- Agriculture: exploitation unlimited and limited -- The conservationist state -- Nature reserves and national parks: revaluing and renaturing the wild -- Biocentrism and park politics -- From conservation to environmentalism and beyond -- Race, environmentalism and social inequality -- Postscript: taming the wild -- Index.