Governing the environment in the early modern world : theory and practice / edited by Sara Miglietti and John Morgan.

Introduction : ruling climates in the early modern world -- Climate, travel and colonialism in the early modern world -- Jean Bodin and the idea of anachorism -- Marshes as a microclimate : governing with the environment in early modern France -- Mastering north east England's "river of Tine" -- Winter and discontent in early modern England -- "Take plow and spade, build and plant and make the wasteland fruitful" : Gerrard Winstanley and the importance of labour in governing the earth -- "A considerable change of climate" : glacial retreat and British policy in the early-nineteenth-century Arctic -- Vast factories of febrile poison : wetlands, drainage, and the fate of American climates, 1750-1850.