Introduction
1. Prelude: Explorations, Encounters, and Abandoned Colonies
2. "Our Mortall Enemies": Early Encounters at Jamestown
3. "To Subdue the Wilde Salvages": Captain John Smith and the Powhatans
4. "A World of Miseries": The Virginia Colony, 1609-1614
5. "Upon Doubtful Terms": Virginia, 1616-1622
6. "A Plantation of Sorrows": Virginia, 1622-1635
7. Another War and a New Policy
8. Bacon's Rebellion and Its Aftermath
Conclusions
Notes
Index