Special Issue: Empire, Capital, and Climate Change

Guest Editor: Ramesh Mallipeddi

Table of Contents

Ramesh Maliipeddi, “Introduction: Histories: Literary, Natural, Planetary.”

Elizabeth Polcha, “Natural Science under Partus Sequitur Ventrem.”

Scott J. Juengel, “Daniel Defoe, Island Geology, and the Erosion of the Historical Present.”

Cass Turner, “Disposable World(s): Race and Commerce in Defoe’s Captain Singleton.”

John Owen Havard, “Swift’s Political Climates.”

Ramesh Mallipeddi, “Soil and Enslaved People: Racial Ecologies of the Plantation Economy, 1627–1764.”

Mrinmoyee Bhattacharya, “Political Ecology Networks, Environmental Change, and Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie.”

Sal Nicolazzo, “Equiano’s Shipwreck: Insurance, Risk and Peril in Plantationocene Oceans.”

Scott R. MacKenzie, “The Northanger Unconformity: Biblio-Stratigraphy and Modalities of Change.”