| | List of Maps and Illustrations | p. ix |
| | Introduction | p. xiii |
| | Foundations | |
| | The Americans | p. 3 |
| | Conquest: The Europeans | |
| | Death on a Coastal Fringe | p. 35 |
| | The "Hammerours'" Regime | p. 63 |
| | Recruitment, Expansion, and Transformation | p. 81 |
| | "A Flood, a Flood of Bloud" | p. 97 |
| | Terra-Maria | p. 117 |
| | The Chesapeake's New World | p. 162 |
| | The Dutch Farrago | p. 191 |
| | Carnage and Civility in a Developing Hub of Commerce | p. 242 |
| | Swedes, Finns, and the Passion of Pieter Plockhoy | p. 276 |
| | God's Conventicle, Bradford's Lamentation | p. 321 |
| | The New-English Sionists: Fault Lines, Diversity, and Persecution | p. 365 |
| | Abrasions, Utopians, and Holy War | p. 417 |
| | Defiance and Disarray | p. 449 |
| | Emergence | |
| | The British Americans | p. 497 |
| | Acknowledgments | p. 531 |
| | Notes | p. 533 |
| | Index | p. 597 |