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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Series introduction -- What is this book? -- Introduction -- The 'discovery' of rubber -- Between medieval and modern -- Us and them -- Early modern outcomes -- Chapter 1: Exploiting nature - The early modern environment -- Situating the chapter -- Narrative -- Nature's mysteries -- Mapping and claiming - Understanding land -- Using and owning land -- Nature's bounty -- Flora and fauna -- Animal rights -- Tragedy of the Commons -- Chapter 2: Exploiting people - The human environment -- Situating the chapter -- Narrative - Human behaviour? -- Sexuality and reproduction -- Marriage -- Substance abuse -- Sense and sensibility -- Emotion and sound -- Printed word -- Viruses and violence -- Accustomed to violence -- Forced labour -- Conclusion -- Interlude 1 - Population problems -- Strength in numbers -- Chapter 3: State-building with gunpowder and gunpower -- States and sovereignty -- Political diversity in 1500 -- A system of empires and kingdoms in Eurasia and North Africa -- Centralization, rationalization and expansionism -- Accounting for the Eurasian centralized state -- The Eurasian model goes to sea -- The chartered company system -- Conflict in sub-Saharan Africa in the Atlantic age -- Disease in American and Pacific political entities -- Ruling the early modern state -- Growing infiltration of bureaucracy in everyday life -- Law and order -- Legitimacy, ceremony and display -- Sectoral alliances -- The emerging middle class: Political power brokers -- International relations -- War and violence -- Political philosophy -- Conclusion -- Interlude 2 - Various power centres -- Political power in 1600: European envy, Asian riches and world rulers -- Chapter 4: Commerce without conscience - Early modern economics -- Situating the chapter -- Narrative.