The colonial crucible empire in the making of the modern American state - McCoy, Alfred W. 1945-; Scarano, Francisco A. 1952- (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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 -- Introduction / Alfred W. McCoy -- American penal forms and colonial Spanish custodial-regulatory practices in Fin de Siècle Puerto Rico / Kevin 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 -- 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 -- 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 can the social life of Jose E. Marco's forgeries and Ahmed Chalabi can tell us about the epistemology of empire / Michael Salman -- 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 -- Introduction / John Ohnesorge -- Empire and the transformation of citizenship / Christina Duffy Burnett -- The afterlife of empire: sovereignty and revolution in the Philippines / Vincente 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 -- 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 Southern Philippines / Joshua Gedacht --