Incluye referencias bibliográficas (425-471) e índice.

The ecology of cotton: environment, labour, and empire -- Bittersweet harvest: the colonial cocoa boom and the tropical forest frontier -- Colonialism, rubber, and the rainforest -- Subterranean frontier: tin mining, empire, and environment in southeast Asia -- Peripheral centres: copper mining and colonized environments in central Africa -- Oil, empire, and environment -- Tropical nature in trust: the politics of colonial nature conservation -- Forests, ecology, and power in the tropical colonies -- Cultivating the colonies: agriculture, development, and environment -- Progress and hubris: the political ecology of late colonial development -- Beyond colonialism: tropical environments and the legacies of empire.