Introduction: Toward a new American history
PART I. INDIANS AND EMPIRES. American Genesis: Indians and the Spanish borderlands
The Native Northeast and the rise of British North America
The unpredictability of violence: Iroquoia and New France to 1701
The Native inland sea: The struggle for the heart of the continent, 1701-55
Settler uprising: the Indigenous origins of the American Revolution
Colonialism's Constitution: The origins of Federal Indian policy
PART II. STRUGGLES FOR SOVEREIGNTY. The deluge of settler Colonialism: Democracy and dispossession in the early Republic
Foreign policy formations: California, The Pacific, and the Borderlands origins of the Monroe Doctrine
Collapse and total war: the Indigenous West and the U.S. Civil War
Taking children and treaty lands: laws and Federal power during the Reservation era
Indigenous twilight at the dawn of the century: Native activists and the myth of Indian disappearance
From termination to self-determination: Native American sovereignty and the Cold War era.
