Table of Contents

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Prologue Introduction Three Crises Nature as Politics and Anti-Politics Four Versions of Anti-Politics Prospects 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 Acknowledgments Index