Ian Rotherham is a leading researcher and writer on ecological history with a long-standing interest in exotic and invasive animals and plants. He is a Reader, Director of the Geography, Tourism, and Environment Research Unit, and International Research Co-ordinator at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Rob Lambert has a dual appointment at the University of Nottingham, UK, as lecturer in environmental history and lecturer in tourism and the environment. He is also a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and co-editor of the journal Environment and History.

Part 1: Setting the Scene. 1. Balancing Species History, Human Culture and Scientific Insight: Introduction and Overview. 2. Human Interactions with Non-Native Species Part 2: Attitudes and Perceptions. 3. Over Here: American Animals in Britain. 4. How the Concept of Alien Species Emerged and Developed in Twentieth-Century Britain. 5. Nativeness and Nationhood: What Species 'Belong' in Post-devolution Scotland? 6. Who is the Invader? Alien Species, Property Rights, and the Police Power. 7. Whales, Whitefellas and the Ambiguity of 'Nativeness': Reflections on the Emplacement of Australian Identities. 8. The Rise of Modern Invasion Biology and American Attitudes Towards Introduced Species. 9. Anekeitaxonomy: Botany, Place and Belonging. 10. The other Side of Bio-Invasion: The Example of Acclimatization in Germany Part 3: Case Studies and Case Histories. 11. Strangers in a Familiar Land: The Return of the Native 'Aliens' and the (Re)wilding of Britain's Skies, 1850-2010. 12. Public Perception of Invasive Alien Species in Mediterranean Europe. 13. The Human Dimensions of Invasive Plants in Tropical Africa. 14. Plant Invasions - The Case of Acclimatisation and wild Gardeners. 16. Factors Affecting People's Response to Invasive Species Management. 17. The Paradox of Invasive Species in Ecological Restoration: Do Restorationists Worry about Them Too Much or Too Little? 18. A View from Continental Europe: The Case-study of Prunus Serotina in France in Comparison with other Invasives. 19. Native or Alien? The Case of the Wild Boar in Britain. 20. Exotic and Invasive Species: An Economic Perspective. 21. Satisfaction in a Horse: The Perception and Assimilation of an Exotic Animal into Maori Custom Law. 22. Fire and Loathing in the Fynbos: Notions of Indigenous and alien vegetation in South Africa's Western Cape, c.1902-1945 23. Biological Invasion and Narratives of Environmental History in New Zealand, 1800-2000s. Part 4: The Way Ahead: Conclusions and Challenges. 24. Good Science, Good History and Pragmatism: Managing the way ahead. Index