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