Miguel Ibáñez Aristondo is an Assistant Professor at Villanova University. He holds the María Zambrano Fellowship in the Department of History at the Complutense University of Madrid. His research focuses on Latin American and Iberian history, literature, and culture.

• Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, Introduction: Tracing the Environmental Legacies of Ecological Imperialism, Chapter One: War, Trade, and Imperialism in Iberian Narratives of China, Chapter Two: Silencing Indigenous Agency through Natural History, Chapter Three: Indigenous Responses in the Contact Zone, Chapter Four: Affluence and Racial Capitalism, Conclusion: Writing the Planetary Crisis from the Edges of the Poor, Bibliography and Sources, Index