Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Cherokees, England, France, and Imagined Empires before 1715
  • 2. (De-)Constructing an Anglo-Cherokee Chain of Friendship, 1700-1730
  • 3. Cherokees, Europeans, and the Tennessee Corridor, 1730-1750
  • 4. Of Fortifications and Chains of Friendship, 1750-1759
  • 5. The Overhills and the Limits of the European Imperial Imagination after 1759
  • Epilogue: Cherokees, Trans-Appalachia, and the Era of the American Revolution, 1774-1800.