Humans versus nature: a global environmental history

The foragers

Farmers and herders

Early civilizations

Eurasia in the classical age

Medieval Eurasia and Africa

The invasion of America

The transformation of the old world

The transition to an industrial world

The West and the non-West in the nineteenth century

War and developmentalism in the twentieth century

Peace and consumerism in the twentieth century

Climate change and climate wars

Plundering the oceans

Extinctions and survivals

Environmentalism.