Introduction : settler colonialism, history, and theory
People from the unknown world : the colonial encounter and the acceleration of violence
No savage shall inherit the land : settler colonialism through the American Revolution
The common enemy of the country : settler colonialism to the Mississippi River
Scenes of agony and blood : Manifest Destiny and the crisis of settler colonialism
They promised to take our land and they took it : completing the continental settler colonial project
Spaces of denial : American colonialism in Hawai'i and Alaska
Things too scandalous to write : the Philippine intervention and the continuities of colonialism
A very particular kind of inclusion : indigenous people in the postcolonial United States
Conclusion : the boomerang of savagery.