Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. A Note on Measurements and Currencies ix
5. Foreword xi
6. The Fifth Line: A Farm Just Like Thousands of Others xv
7. The Land and What Happened to It
8. The Land beyond Memory: Before 1500 3
9. Stone Age Meets Iron – and Smallpox: The 1500s and 1600s 29
10. Wilding the Land with War: The 1700s 55
11. Manufacturing the Land: The 1800s 84
12. Voices of Nature Past
13. Taking the Wildlife: 1500–1900 111
14. Clearing the Wood: 1500–1900 154
15. Taming the Unforested: Prairies, Alvars, Barrens, Cliffs, Bogs, and Fens 196
16. The True North: Three Centuries On 228
17. Nature’s Prospect
18. Invasives: The Unintended Consequences of the Uninvited 259
19. Growing Cities, Changing Climates: The Next Conversion 278
20. Restoration: A New Native Landscape 302
21. Nature Never Repeats Itself 345
22. Notes 351
23. References 413
24. Index 461