Illustrations
Preface
Part 1. Exploring Imperial Transitions
On the Tropic of Cancer: Transitions and Transformations in the U.S. Imperial State
Alfred W. McCoy, Francisco A. Scarano, and Courtney Johnson
Reading Imperial Transitions: Spanish Contraction, British Expansion, and American Irruption
Josep M. Fradera
From Old Empire to New: The Changing Dynamics and Tactics of American Empire
Thomas McCormick
Part 2. Police, Prisons, and Law Enforcement
Introduction
Alfred W. McCoy
American Penal Forms and Colonial Spanish Custodial-Regulatory Practices in Fin de Siècle Puerto Rico
Kelvin Santiago-Valles
Prohibiting Opium in the Philippines and the United States: The Creation of an Interventionist State
Anne L. Foster
Policing the Imperial Periphery: Philippine Pacification and the Rise of the U.S. National Security State
Alfred W. McCoy
"The Prison That Makes Men Free": The Iwahig Penal Colony and the Simulacra of the American State in the Philippines
Michael Salman
Part 3. Education
Introduction
Adam Nelson
Negotiating Colonialism: "Race," Class, and Education in Early-Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico
Solsirée del Moral
Enlightened Tolerance or Cultural Capitulation? Contesting Notions of American Identity
Amílcar Antonio Barreto
The Business of Education in the Colonial Philippines, 1909–30
Glenn Anthony May
The Imperial Enterprise and Educational Policies in Colonial Puerto Rico
Pablo Navarro-Rivera
Understanding the American Empire: Colonialism, Latin Americanism, and Professional Social Science, 1898–1920
Courtney Johnson
Part 4. Race and Imperial Identities
Introduction
Clare Corbould
Race, Empire, and Transnational History
Paul A. Kramer
Censuses in the Transition to Modern Colonialism: Spain and the United States in Puerto Rico
Francisco A. Scarano
Race and the Suffrage Controversy in Cuba, 1898–1901
Alejandro de la Fuente and Matthew Casey
From Columbus to Ponce de León: Puerto Rican Commemorations between Empires, 1893–1908
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
A Critical-Historical Genealogy of Koko (Blood), 'Aina (Land), Hawaiian Identity, and Western Law and Governance
Rona Tamiko Halualani
Buying into Empire: American Consumption at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Kristin Hoganson
Confabulating American Colonial Knowledge of the Philippines: What the Social Life of Jose E. Marco's Forgeries and Ahmed Chalabi Can Tell Us about the Epistemology of Empire
Michael Salman
Part 5. Imperial Medicine and Public Health: Bodies as Subjects
Introduction
Nancy Tomes
Pacific Crossings: Imperial Logics in United States' Public Health Programs
Warwick Anderson
A Fever for Empire: U.S. Disease Eradication in Cuba as Colonial Public Health
Mariola Espinosa
Mapping Regional and Imperial Geographies: Tropical Disease in the U.S. South
Natalie J. Ring
The Conquest of Molecules: Wild Yams and American Scientists in Mexican Jungles
Gabriela Soto Laveaga
Tropical Conquest and the Rise of the Environmental Management State: The Case of U.S. Sanitary Efforts in Panama
Paul S. Sutter
Part 6. Polity, Law, and Constitution
Introduction
John Ohnesorge
Empire and the Transformation of Citizenship
Christina Duffy Burnett
The Afterlife of Empire: Sovereignty and Revolution in the Philippines
Vicente L. Rafael
The U.S. Constitution and Philippine Colonialism: An Enduring and Unfortunate Legacy
Owen J. Lynch
Spanish Structure, American Theory: The Legal Foundations of a Tropical New Deal in the Philippine Islands, 1898–1935
Anna Leah Fidelis T. Castañeda
The Hazards of Jeffersonianism: Challenges of State Building in the United States and Its Empire
Paul D. Hutchcroft
Part 7. U.S. Military
Introduction: The Military and the U.S. Imperial State
Christopher Capozzola
"Mohammedan Religion Made It Necessary to Fire": Massacres on the American Imperial Frontier from South Dakota to the Southern Philippines
Joshua Gedacht
The U.S. Army as an Occupying Force in Muslim Mindanao, 1899–1913
Patricio N. Abinales
Minutemen for the World: Empire, Citizenship, and the National Guard, 1903–24
Christopher Capozzola
From Winship to Leahy: Crisis, War, and Transition in Puerto Rico
Jorge Rodríguez Beruff
French and American Imperial Accommodation in the Caribbean during World War II: The Experience of Guyane and the Subaltern Roles of Puerto Ricans
Humberto García-Muñiz and Rebeca Campo
Guantánamo and the Case of Kid Chicle: Private Contract Labor and the Development of the U.S. Military
Jana K. Lipman
The Impact of the Philippine Wars (1898–1913) on the U.S. Army 0
Brian McAllister Linn
Part 8. Environmental Management
Introduction: Environmental and Economic Management
J. R. McNeill
Conservation and Colonialism: Gifford Pinchot and the Birth of Tropical Forestry in the Philippines
Greg Bankoff
Manila's Imperial Makeover: Security, Health, and Symbolism
Daniel F. Doeppers
"'The World Was My Garden": Tropical Botany and Cosmopolitanism in American Science, 1898–1935
Stuart McCook
Scientific Superman: Father José Algué, Jesuit Meteorology, and the Philippines under American Rule, 1897–1924
James Francis Warren
Part 9. The Elusive Character of American Global Power
The Limits of American Empire: Democracy and Militarism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
Jeremi Suri
Crucibles, Capillaries, and Pentimenti: Reflections on Imperial Transformations
Nancy Tomes
Empire in American History
Ian Robert Tyrrell
Notes
Contributors
Index