Fighting for America: the struggle for mastery in North America, 1519-1871

Sixteenth-century background

Creating new frontiers, 1600-74

Britain, France, and the natives, 1674-1715

Multiple currents, 1715-53

War for dominance, 1754-64

Britain triumphant to America independent, 1765-76

Britain defeated, 1775-83

Flexing muscles, 1783-1811

Florida, but not Canada : from the War of 1812 to the Monroe Doctrine, 1812-23

Expansionism and its problems, 1823-43

From the Oregon question to the Gadsden Purchase, 1844-53

A great power in the making? : America, 1853-61

America divided, 1861-63

Winning the war, 1863-65

Settling the North American question, 1865-71

Postscript, 1871-2010.