| | Note on Usage | p. xi |
| | Foreword | p. xiii |
| | Introduction | p. xvii |
| | Original Sins | |
| | The First Hispanic Colonization of What Is Now US Territory, c. 1505-1846 | |
| | The Fountain of Youth | |
| | The First Colonies in What Was to Be the United States, c. 1505-1763 | p. 3 |
| | The Cities of Cíbola | |
| | The Colonial Midwest from the Mississippi to the Rockies, c. 1598-1798 | p. 35 |
| | The Pursuit of King Arthur | |
| | The Shadow of Anglo-America, c. 1607-1784 | p. 74 |
| | The Realm of Queen Calafia | |
| | The Foundation of California and the Showdown with Anglo-America, c. 1766-1846 | p. 110 |
| | The Empire of Eden | |
| | The Expansion of Anglo-America and the Hispanic Retreat, c. 1846-1898 | |
| | The Curse of Zorro | |
| | The Great Expropriation, c. 1846-1887 | p. 153 |
| | The Revenge of Moroni | |
| | The Triumph of Anglo-America, c. 1830-1898 | p. 199 |
| | Paradise Regained? | |
| | The Second Hispanic Colonization, c. 1898-2012 | |
| | The Return to Aztlán | |
| | Americanization and Resistance in the Age of Mexican Countercolonization, c. 1898-1986 | p. 245 |
| | The Republic of Hesperus | |
| | The Remaking of the Hispanic United States, c. 1914-2012 | p. 285 |
| | Retrospect and Prospect | |
| | Why the United States Is-and Has to Be-a Latin American Country | p. 330 |
| | Acknowledgments | p. 357 |
| | Notes | p. 359 |
| | Permissions | p. 383 |
| | Index | p. 385 |