Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-476) and index.

Introduction : in search of nature / William Cronon -- The trouble with wilderness; or, Getting back to the wrong nature / William Cronon -- Constructing nature : the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted / Anne Whiston Spirn -- Amazonia as Edenic narrative / Candace Slater -- Reinventing Eden : western culture as a recovery narrative / Carolyn Merchant -- "Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living?" : work and nature / Richard White -- Looking for nature at the mall : a field guide to the Nature Company / Jennifer Price -- "Touch the magic" / Susan G. Davis -- Ecological fragmentation in the fifties / Michael G. Barbour -- On the search for a root cause : essentialist tendencies in environmental discourse / Jeffrey C. Ellis -- Whose nature? The contested moral terrain of ancient forests / James D. Proctor -- Nature as community : the convergence of environment and social justice / Giovanna Di Chiro -- Universal donors in a vampire culture : it's all in the family : biological kinship categories in the twentieth-century United States / Donna J. Haraway -- Reinventing common nature : Yosemite and Mount Rushmore--a meandering tale of a double nature / Kenneth R. Olwig -- Simulated nature and natural simulations : rethinking the relation between the beholder and the world / N. Katherine Hayles -- Toward a philosophy of nature / Robert P. Harrison.