From the Book - Liveright paperback edition.
Introduction : The myth of colonial America --
Part One: The dawn of the indigenous continent (the first seventy millennia) --
The world on the turtle's back --
The egalitarian continent --
Part Two: Appear at a distance like giants (the long sixteenth century) --
Wars at the water's edge --
The Pequots shall no more be called Pequots --
Part Three: The conquest for the great American interior (early and mid-seventeenth century) --
The rise of the five nations league --
Part Four: The indigenous backlash (late seventeenth century) --
The English as a little child --
Virginia's civil and uncivil wars --
The great southwestern rebellion --
Part Five: The enduring indigenous continent (early eighteenth century) --
They smelled like alligators --
An infinity of rancherías --
Part Six: The heart of the continent (mid- and late eighteenth century) --
Wars to the end of the world --
British America besieged --
Worldly and otherworldly wars of independence --
Part Seven: American revolutions (late eighteenth to early nineteenth century) --
The white devil with his mouth wide open --
Part Eight: The age of equestrian empires (nineteenth century) --
The Comanche ascendancy --
Epilogue : Revenge and revival.
From the Book - First edition.
Introduction : The myth of colonial America
The world on the turtle's back
The egalitarian continent
The Pequots shall no more be called Pequots
The rise of the five nations league
The English as a little child
Virginia's civil and uncivil wars
The great southwestern rebellion
They smelled like alligators
An infinity of rancherías
Wars to the end of the world
Worldly and otherworldly wars of independence
The white devil with his mouth wide open
Epilogue : Revenge and revival.
