pt. 1. Clearing in the deep past
1. The return of the forest
2. Fire and foragers
3. The first farmers
4. The classical world
5. The medieval world
pt. 2. Reaching out : Europe and the wider world
6. Driving forces and cultural climates, 1500-1750
7. Clearing in Europe, 1500-1750
8. The wider world, 1500-1750
9. Driving forces and cultural climates, 1750-1900
10. Clearing in the temperate world, 1750-1920
11. Clearing in the tropical world, 1750-1920
pt. 3. The global forest
12. Scares and solutions, 1900-1944
13. The great onslaught, 1945-95 : dimensions of change
14. The great onslaught, 1945-95 : patterns of change.