Battle for the New World

A bold, new interpretation of the conquest of North America, plus two new books on Western borders, a biography of King Fisher and a classic Western novel. For scholars of North American history—East, West, North or South—Pekka Hämäläinen’s Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, $40) is one of the most important books to be published in at least a decade. From his position as the Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University, the Finnish hist