Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: How Did We Get Here?

PART I FORGING FIRST NATURE

1 The Paleolithic Landscape

2 Neolithic Revolutions

3 The Spread of Farming Culture

4 Uruk and Egypt, the Great Powers

5 The Primacy of Landscape in West Asia

6 Mediterranean Trade and Regional Cooperation

PART II PERSEVERANCE AND ATTACK

7 The Greek Link between Landscape and Cosmology

8 Roman Agriculture: Three Case Studies

9 Medieval Christian Ecological Understanding

10 Muslim Ecological Understanding

11 Renaissance Landscape and Food

12 Mechanistic Models and Romantic Wilderness

PART III AGE OF CRISIS

13 Silence, Loss, and Catastrophe

14 The Modern Mediterranean

Conclusion: What Is to Be Done?

Notes

Bibliography

Index