CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PROCESSES -- ECOLOGICAL REARRANGEMENTS -- ENDNOTES -- THE LONG TERM -- 1. Crisis -- An Appropriate Baseline -- ENDNOTES -- 2. Decline -- VERY LONG-TERM HISTORY -- ENDNOTES -- 3. Proper Baselines: The Example of English Butterflies -- ENDNOTES -- ENGLAND AND THE NETHERLANDS -- 4. Commodity Landscapes: Southern England -- COMMODITY LANDSCAPES -- WILDLIFE HISTORIES -- VERMIN -- ENDNOTES -- 5. Agricultural Change: Southern England -- AGRICULTURAL CHANGE -- A SHIFTING BASELINE -- TRAPPING -- CONCLUSIONS -- ENDNOTES -- 6. Landscapes of Destruction: The Curse of the Pheasant -- DUTCH SHOOTING ESTATES -- SHOOTING IN ENGLAND -- ALTERING THE ENVIRONMENT -- CONSEQUENCES FOR WILDLIFE -- THE MODERN SITUATION -- ENDNOTES -- 7. Landscapes of Destruction: The Sacrifice to Trout -- CHALK STREAM ANGLING -- RIVER MANAGEMENT -- USES LIKE NESTS OF BOXES -- 'THE SACRIFICE TO TROUT' -- FISHING: IN CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- 8. The Netherlands: Reclamation and Exploitation -- PROBLEMS OF AN EMERGENT LANDSCAPE -- THE IMPACTS OF DRAINAGE AND EXPLOITATION OF WILDLIFE -- ENDNOTES -- 9. England: Reclamation and Exploitation -- EFFECTS ON ENGLISH WILDLIFE -- ENDNOTES -- EUROPEAN EXPANSION -- 10. Europe's Expansion Overseas -- ENDNOTES -- 11. Europe's Distant Reach -- THE PULL OF THE MARKET -- THE LONDON MARKET -- BELIEFS AND CONSEQUENCES -- ENDNOTES -- 12. Pristine America -- THE PRISTINE MYTH -- THE NOBLE SAVAGE MYTH -- CULTURAL EXCHANGES -- EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT -- REACHING FOR THE WEST -- REACHING THE PRAIRIE EDGE -- ENDNOTES -- THE MODERN WORLD -- 13. East Asia -- CHINA'S ENVIRONMENTAL PAST -- CHINA'S ENVIRONMENTAL PRESENT -- FOREST INDUSTRIES -- BIRDS' NEST SOUP -- ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES -- THE FISHING TRADES -- MALE ANXIETIES -- ORNAMENTS -- PROSPECTS -- ENDNOTES -- 14. The Modern Expansion of Agriculture.

SUPPLIES -- LAND ACQUISITION -- THE CASE OF BRAZIL -- PROSPECTS FOR WORLD AGRICULTURE -- ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES -- ENDNOTES -- CONCLUSION -- 15. What Should We conserve? -- TRADITIONAL MANAGEMENT -- TRADITIONAL MANAGEMENT: A STOCK-TAKING -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- General Index -- Person Index -- Principal Species.