Ch. 1. The Story and the Culture -- Ch. 2. Aeneas and Agriculture: Roman Archaeology -- Ch. 3. The Epic of History: Virgil's Aeneid -- Ch. 4. The Center of the Aeneid: The Arrival of the Culture-Bringers -- Ch. 5. The Legend and the Landscape: Agri- and Other Cultures -- Ch. 6. The Unfinished City: Chronicle Histories -- Ch. 7. The City Founded: Geoffrey of Monmouth -- Ch. 8. Commerce and Culture: Patterns of Trade and Art -- Ch. 9. Everybody's Genealogy: Forgers and Popularizers -- Ch. 10. Epic Voyages: Poets and Colonizers in the Sixteenth Century -- Ch. 11. The Epic of Justification: Edmund Spenser -- Ch. 12. Spectacles and Sermons: Pageants and John Donne -- Ch. 13. Exit History Past: Neoclassic Historiography in England and France -- Ch. 14. Enter History Present: Providential Historiography in the Eighteenth Century -- Ch. 15. Myth in Law: From Victoria to Locke -- Ch. 16. Law in Myth: Alexander Pope.

Ch. 17. Concealing and Revealing: Richardson's Fiction and Vattel's Law -- Ch. 18. Theorizing: The Scottish Enlightenment -- Ch. 19. Observing: French Jesuits in North America -- Ch. 20. Overlooking: William Robertson and America -- Ch. 21. Overlooking in Other Directions: Humanitarians and Africa -- Ch. 22. Expropriating: Nineteenth-Century Colonial Discourse -- Ch. 23. The Legend as the Landscape: Joseph Conrad -- Ch. 24. The Movable Frontier: British Colonial Administrators -- Ch. 25. The Legend as More Landscapes: E. M. Forster -- Ch. 26. The Landscape in the Movies: The Western and John Ford -- Ch. 27. The Epic as History: John Ford's Westerns -- Ch. 28. Defoliating the landscape: The War in Indochina -- Ch. 29. Current Events.