Introduction, Mats Widgren, N. Thomas Håkansson; Chapter 1 Economics and the Process of Making Farmland, William E. Doolittle; Chapter 2 Capital-esque Landscapes: Long-Term Histories of Enduring Landscape Modifications, Kathleen D. Morrison; Chapter 3 Taro Terraces, Chiefdoms and Malaria: Explaining Landesque Capital Formation in Solomon Islands, Tim Bayliss-Smith, Edvard Hviding; Chapter 4 World Systems Terraces: External Exchange and the Formation of Landesque Capital Among the Ifugao, the Philippines, N. Thomas Håkansson; Chapter 5 Large-Scale Investments in Water Management in Europe and China, 1000–1800, Janken Myrdal; Chapter 6 “Stonescape”: Farmers’ Differential Willingness to Invest in Landesque Capital in Nineteenth Century Sweden, Henrik Svensson; Chapter 7 The Social Life of Landesque Capital and a Tanzanian Case Study, Michael Sheridan; Chapter 8 The Temporality of Landesque Capital: Cultivation and the Routines of Pokot Life, Matthew I. J. Davies; Chapter 9 Irrigated Fields Are Wives: Indigenous Irrigation in Marakwet, Kenya, Wilhelm Östberg; Chapter 10, Alf Hornborg, Love Eriksen, Ragnheiður Bogadóttir; Chapter 11, Gregory Zaro; Chapter 12, Lowe Börjeson; postscript Postscript, Tim Bayliss-Smith;