Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Public opinion, Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights, Public opinion--United States, Race Discrimination -- United States, Racism, Territorial Expansion -- United States, United States -- Race Relations, United States 

"Investigates the historical link between American racism and expansionism."--WorldCat.org. 

Contents:
Preface to the Schocken edition --
Introduction --
pt. 1. Maypoles and Pequots. The maypole of Merry Mount ; Thomas Morton ; John Endicott ; The Pequot War ; The legacy of the Pequot War --
pt. 2. Founding fathers and merciless savages. Timothy Dwight of Greenfield Hill ; John Adams ; Thomas Jefferson ; Jefferson, II: Benevolence betrayed ; Driving Indians into Jefferson's stony mountains --
pt. 3. Philanthropists and Indian-haters. Westward ho! with James Kirke Paulding ; An American romance in color: William Gilmore Simms ; Nicks in the woods: Robert Montgomery Bird ; Friend of the Indian: Colonel McKenney ; Professional Westerner: Judge Hall --
pt. 4. Civilizers and conquerors. The American rhythm: Mary Austin ; The manifest destiny of John Fiske ; Outcast if the islands: Henry Adams ; The open door of John Hay ; Insular expert: Professor Worcester ; The strenuous life abroad: "Marked severities" in the Philippines ; The strenuous life at home: to and beyond the Louisiana Purchase Exposition --
pt. 5. Children of light. The occident express: from the Bay Colony to Indochina ; The ugly American ; The secret agent: Edward Geary Lansdale ; Covert savior of the Philippines ; Closing the circle of empire: Indochina ; The quiet American ; The new frontier ; The problem of the West.