Cherokee power : imperial and indigenous geopolitics in the trans-Appalachian west, 1670-1774 / Kristofer Ray.

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.