List of figuresList of tablesList of contributorsAcknowledgementsIce humanities: living, working, and thinking in a melting worldSverker SorlinKlaus DoddsPart I Living with ice1 Writing on sea ice: early modern Icelandic scholarsAstrid E. J. Ogilvie2 A moving element: ice, culture, and economy in northern and northwestern RussiaAlexei Kraikovski3 Ever higher: the mountain cryosphereDani Inkpen4 Glacier protection campaigns: what do they really save?Mark CareyJordan BartonSam Flanzer5 Ice futures: the extension of jurisdiction in the Anthropocene northBruce EricksonLiam Kennedy-SlaneyJames WiltPart II Working with ice6 White spots on rivers of gold: imperial glaciers in Russian Central AsiaChristine Bichsel7 The many ways that water froze: a taxonomy of ice in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century AmericaJonathan Rees8 Drift, capture, break, and vanish: sea ice in the Soviet Museum of the Arctic in the 1930sJulia LajusRuth Maclennan9 Waiting and witnessing at Larsen C Ice Shelf, AntarcticaJessica O'ReillyPart III Thinking with ice10 Imperial slippages: encountering and knowing ice in and beyond colonial IndiaThomas Simpson11 Negotiating governable objects: glaciers in ArgentinaJasmin Hoglund Hellgren12 Cryonarratives for warming times: icebergs as planetary travelersElizabeth Leane13 Frozen archives on the go: ice cores and the temporalization of Earth system scienceErik IsbergIndex