After nature: a politics for the anthropocene

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Three Crises -- Nature as Politics and Anti-Politics -- Four Versions of Anti-Politics -- Prospects -- Chapter 1. An Unequal Terrain -- Order and Disorder in Early New England -- Two Paths toward Democracy -- Chapter 2. God's Avid Gardeners -- Locke and the Commoners' Terrain -- Savages and Slaves: A New Unequal Terrain -- Trader Imagination versus Settler Imagination -- A Road Not Taken -- Chapter 3. Nature as Teacher -- A Pause for Flowers: Philip Freneau -- Learning from the Land: John Quincy Adams -- Training the Eye: The Hudson River School -- Chapter 4. Natural Utopias -- A Choice of Inheritances -- Arguing over Concord: Transcendentalism and Its Uses -- Making the Sierra Club's Nature -- A Romantic Cultural Politics -- The Sierra Club and Public-Lands Politics -- How Nature's Utopia Became Less Radical -- Natural Utopias -- A Walden for the Anthropocene -- Chapter 5. A Conservationist Empire -- Progressive Management and the Idea of Conservation -- The Roots of Conservation -- Social and Moral Reform -- The Conservation of Civic Virtue -- The Humanism of Socialized Consumption -- Conservation, Eugenics, and Racism -- Chapter 6. A Wilderness Passage into Ecology -- Ecology's Darker Origins -- Opening a New Door -- Ecology: From New Dawn to Chronic Crisis -- Intergenerational Legal Interpretation in the Ecological Age -- Chapter 7. Environmental Law in the Anthropocene -- From Wilderness to Cultivation: Food, Agriculture, and the Value of Work -- Animals and the Ethics of Encounters across Species -- Climate Change: From Failure to New Standards of Success -- The Breakdown of Familiar Ideas -- Respect for Failure -- Chapter 8. What Kind of Democracy? -- Ecological Economics -- Democracy and Post-Humanism -- Exclusion and Misanthropy -- Notes.