A note on dates -- List of illustrations and maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Book one. Bacon's revolution -- Book two. The world viewed from Whitehall -- Book three. The Anglo-Iroquoian Empire. I. "The prince and the orator": Garacontié of Onondaga -- II. Edmund Andros, English Imperialist -- III. The Covenant chain. -- Conclusions. The Revolutions of 1676 and the end of American independence -- Maps and decorations -- Index.