List of Tables and Figures

Acknowledgment

Prologue: Noses, or the Tip of the Problem

PART I: Approaching America, 1500-1585
1. Transatlantic Background
2. Technology versus Idolatry?

PART II: Invading America, 1585-1660
3. No Magic Bullets: Archery, Ethnography, and Military Intelligence
4. Domesticating America
5. Death and the Birth of Race

PART III: Conquering America, 1640-1676
6. How Improvement Trumped Hybridity
7. Gender and the Artificial Indian Body
8. Matter and Manitou

Coda

Notes

Index

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Joyce E. Chaplin is Professor of History at Harvard University.