The world from the dawn of time (c.4.5 bn-c.7m BC) --

On the origins of our species (c.7m-c.12,000 BC) --

Human interactions with ecologies (c.12,000-c.3500 BC) --

The first cities and trade networks (c.3500-c.2500 BC) --

On the risks of living beyond one's means (c.2500-c.2200 BC) --

The first age of connectivity (c.2200-c.800 BC) --

Regarding nature and the divine (c.1700-c.300 BC) --

The steppe frontier and formation of empires (c.1700-c.300 BC) --

The Roman warm period (c.300 BC-AD c.500) --

The crisis of late antiquity (AD c.500-c.600) --

The golden age of empire (c.600-c.900) --

The medieval warm period (c.900-c.1250) --

Disease and the formation of a new world (c.1250-c.1450) --

On the expansion of ecological horizons (c.1400-c.1500) --

The fusion of the old and the new worlds (c.1500-c.1700) --

On the exploitation of nature and people (c.1650-c.1750) --

The little ice age (c.1550-c.1800) --

Concerning great and little divergences (c.1600-c.1800) --

Industry, extraction and the natural world (c.1800-c.1870) --

The age of turbulence (c.1870-c.1920) --

Fashioning new utopias (c.1920-c.1950) --

Reshaping the global environment (the mid-twentieth century) --

The sharpening of anxieties (c.1960-c.1990) --

On the edge of ecological limits (c.1990-today) --

Conclusion.