- List of Illustrations*
- Map: The Early South
- Introduction
- I. What: Making Sense of La Florida, 1560s–1670s
- 1. Paths and Power
- 2. Information Contests
- 3. Rebellious News
- II. Who: The Many Faces of Information, 1660s–1710s
- 4. Informers and Slaves
- 5. The Information Race
- III. How: New Ways of Articulating Power, 1710–1740
- 6. Networks in Wartime
- 7. Dissonant Connections
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Illustrations
- Figures
- 1.1 Pre-Columbian rock map
- 1.2 Detail from a Creek dictionary
- 1.3 A Catawba map
- 1.4 Timucua council meeting
- 2.1 Outina attacks Potano
- 3.1 Spanish information networks, 1656
- 3.2 Timucua information networks, 1656
- 4.1 Indian slave raids
- 6.1 Sanute warns of coming war
- 6.2 Yamasee and Apalachicola relocation
- 7.1 Oglethorpe’s attack on San Agustín
- Maps
- The early South
- 1.1 Major paths and towns, circa 1720
- 3.1 Timucua missions, 1650s
- 5.1 Apalachicola towns, 1680s
- Figures