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Pavla Simkova is an environmental historian based at the Collegium Carolinum in Munich, Germany. She has held positions at both the Collegium Carolinum and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at LMU Munich where she received her doctorate in 2019. Her research interests include East Central European and American environmental history as well as urban history. She is currently one of the editors of the journal WerkstattGeschichte. Her first book, Urban Archipelago: An Environmental History of the Boston Harbor Islands, was published in 2021. Milica Prokic is an environmental historian and knowledge exchange scholar. The focus of her historical research is the interrelationships between landscapes, bodies, politics and power. She obtained her Ph.D. in history from the University of Bristol in 2017 with a thesis on Goli Otok (Barren Island). She has held fellowships at the European University Institute, the Rachel Carson Center (LMU Munich), and the Kunsthistorisches Institut Max Planck. Milica currently works at the One Ocean Hub (University of Strathclyde), and has previously worked at the School of Humanities, University of Glasgow.

Introduction
Milica Prokic and Pavla Simkova

I. Islands of Conservation
1.The Environments of Late Ancient Ephesus: A History in Three Islands
Travis W. Proctor
2.Nature(s) of Power: Environment, Politics and Prestige on Brijuni Islands in the Twentieth Century
Milica Prokic and Hrvoje Petric
3.Sailing Through Heritage: Nautical Tourism, Environmental Protection, Conflict and the Making of the Kornati National Park in Socialist Yugoslavia
Josef Djordjevski
4.Ghostly Presences: Giant Lizards and Conservation on Culebra Island
Gitte Westergaard
5.Quilting the 'Brown Hole' in Environmental History: Muddy Materialities of Bengal
Jenia Mukherjee, Raktima Ghosh, and Pritwinath Ghosh

II. Islands of Exploitation
6.Refuge and Hell Itself: How Two Pacific Islands Shaped the Buccaneer Presence from the Seventeenth to the Eighteenth Century
Wim De Winter
7.Amami and Amami: Confecting Sugar Islands in the East China Sea
Thomas Monaghan
8.Expendable Enewetak - An Environmental History of a Cold War Islandscape
Todd A. Hanson
9.The Urban Island: Connection and Remoteness in the History of Gallops Island in Boston Harbor
Pavla Simkova
10.Island Palimpsest: Understanding Neil Island's Transition through Settler's Oral Recollections
Raka Banerjee

III. Islands of Experimentation
11.Lost Eden: An Environmental History of the Plantation System on the Island of La Reunion (1638-1960)
Philippe Holstein, Jehanne-Emmanuelle Monnier, and Pablo Corral-Broto
12.The Savage State: Humans, Nature and Governance in the Eighteenth-Century Corsica
Joshua Meeks
13.The Island of Violence: Goli otok, the Yugoslav Prisonscape
Milica Prokic
14.Pristine Ground, Plastic Histories: Narrating Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai
Jeff Wescott

Conclusion
Milica Prokic and Pavla Simkova