Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Overture: Mr. Pepys’s Hat
1 The Middle Ground
2 Employees, Martyrs, and Four Hundred Rifles
3 Beaver Wars
4 Inland Empires
5 “This New Man”
6 Fires in the Wilderness
7 Colonel Washington’s Mission
8 “Property of the Crown”
9 “Set the World on Fire”
10 Fort Necessity
11 Mercenary War
12 “All North America in the Hands of a Single Power”
13 White Savages
14 Big Knives and Red People
15 Anthony and Astor
Bibliography
Index
Also by Alan Axelrod
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