Introduction : scarcity and frontiers
The agricultural transition (from 10,000 BC to 3000 BC)
The rise of cities (from 3000 BC to 1000 AD)
The emergence of the world economy (from 1000 to 1500)
Global frontiers and the rise of Western Europe (from 1500 to 1914)
The Atlantic economy triangular trade (from 1500 to 1860)
The golden age of resource-based development (from 1870 to 1914)
The age of dislocation (from 1914 to 1950)
The contemporary era (from 1950 to the present)
Epilogue : the age of ecological scarcity?