In this book, David Fedman examines Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea (1905-1945). Chapter 1 outlines what he calls the "imperialization" of forestry in Mejii Japan, i.e., the transformation of forest management into the building blocks of capitalism, sites of emperor worship, and symbols of national prestige.

Chris Gratien examines how the yayla was integral to the local ecology of Ottoman Cilicia as a shared temporal and spatial dimension of culture. This local ecology, in turn, shaped society, politics, and the historical evolution of the region up until the Tanzimat reforms.

Jessica Otis from George Mason University and Dagomar Degroot from Georgetown University discuss the intricate relationship between catastrophe and data through early modern sources.

What do we make of the quantifying impulse in response to danger? What of the affective affordances of putting danger in the form of numbers or visualizations? How do divides in data literacy set up stark material divides when data represents life-threatening dangers?