Cover
Half-title page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Diminishment
Partial Readings in the Casualties of Natural History
Chapter 1 Sketching American Species: Birds, Weeds, and Trees in Audubon, Cooper, and Pokagon
Chapter 2 "Because I see-New Englandly-": Emily Dickinson and the Specificity of Disjunction
Chapter 3 Coral of Life: James McCune Smith and the Diasporic Structure of Racial Uplift
Chapter 4 Thoreau's Dispersion: Writing a Natural History of Casualties
Afterword: &
Notes