| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| The Home of Time: The Prime Meridian, the Dome of the Millennium, and Postnational Space | 23 |
| Mapping the Orient: Non-Western Modernization, Imperialism, and the End of Romanticism | 40 |
| "Water Leaves No Trail": Mapping Away the Vanishing American in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales | 55 |
| Mapping Enterprise: Cartography and Commodification at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition | 75 |
| "A Typically English Brew": Tea Drinking, Tourism, and Imperialism in Victorian England | 99 |
| Cultural Ecologies for the Coast: Space as the Edge of Cultural Practice in Mary Kingsley's Travels in West Africa | 109 |
| Jewish Geography: Trollope and the Question of Style | 123 |
| When in Rome: Honeymoon Tourism in the "City of Visible History" | 137 |
| Erotic Geographies: Sex and the Managing of Colonial Space | 149 |
| Confinements and Liberations: Inscribing "Woman" in Colonial Geographies of Power | 161 |
| Literacy for Empire: The ABCs of Geography and the Rule of Territoriality in Early-Nineteenth-Century America | 172 |
| From House to Square to Street: Narrative Traversals | 191 |
| Those "Gorgeous Incongruities": Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century New York | 209 |
| Dickensian Dislocations: Trauma, Memory, and Railway Disaster | 225 |
| Poetics on the Line: The Effect of Mass Transport in Urban Culture | 237 |
| "Full of Empty": Creating the Southwest as "Terra Incognita" | 251 |
| Empire's Second Take: Projecting America in Stanley and Livingstone | 265 |
| Notes on Contributors | 279 |
| Index | 283 |