Introduction: Building Global Perspectives in History of Science : The Era from 1750 to 1850 / Patrick Manning
Part I. Exchanges among Ways of Knowing. Between Bureaucrats and Bark Collectors : Spain's Royal Reserve of Quina and the Limits of European Botany in the Late Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World / Matthew James Crawford ; Hurricanes on the Gulf Coast : Environmental Knowledge and Science in Louisiana, the Caribbean, and the United States, 1722-1900 / Eleonora Rohland ; The History and Influence of Maria Sibylla Merian's Bird-Eating Tarantula : Circulating Images and the Production of Natural Knowledge / Kay Etheridge
Part II. Evolution of the Linnaean Vision. Linnaeus's Apostles and the Globalization of Knowledge, 1729-1756 / Kenneth Nyberg ; Local, Universal, and Embodied Knowledge : Anglo-Swedish Contacts and Linnaean Natural History / Hanna Hodacs ; How Eighteenth-Century "Travelers in Trade" Changed Swedish Perceptions of Economic Systems / Göran Rydén
Part III. Debates on Description and Taxonomy. The Slow Science of Swift Nature : Hummingbirds and Humans in New Spain / Iris Montero Sobrevilla ; Félix de Azara and the Birds of Paraguay : Making Inventories and Taxonomies at the Boundaries of the Spanish Empire, 1784-1802 / Marcelo Fabián Figueroa ; Los Pichiciegos : Scraps of Information and the Affinities of Mammals in the Early Nineteenth Century / Irina Podgorny
Part IV. Logistics, Management, and Planning. Mapping the Global and Local Archipelago of Scientific Tropical Sugar : Agriculture, Knowledge, and Practice, 1790-1880 / Leida Fernández-Prieto ; "Squares of Tropic Summer" : The Wardian Case, Victorian Horticulture, and the Logistics of Global Plant Transfers, 1770-1910 / Stuart McCook ; Stamping Empire : Postal Standardization in Nineteenth-Century India / Devyani Gupta
Part V. Labor and Economics in History of Science. The Great Data Divergence : Global History of Science within Global Economic History / Jessica Ratcliff ; Toward a Global Labor History of Science / Daniel Rood.