Table of Contents

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 Siu00e8cle 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 u0022The Prison That Makes Men Freeu0022: The Iwahig Penal Colony and the Simulacra of the American State in the Philippines        Michael Salman Part 3. Education Introduction        Adam Nelson Negotiating Colonialism: u0022Race,u0022 Class, and Education in Early-Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico     Solsiru00e9e del Moral Enlightened Tolerance or Cultural Capitulation? Contesting Notions of American Identity        Amu00edlcar 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 Leu00f3n: 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. Castau00f1eda 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 u0022Mohammedan Religion Made It Necessary to Fireu0022: 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 Rodru00edguez 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 Garcu00eda-Muu00f1iz and Rebeca Campo Guantu00e1namo 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 u0022'The World Was My Gardenu0022: Tropical Botany and Cosmopolitanism in American Science, 1898–1935        Stuart McCook Scientific Superman: Father Josu00e9 Alguu00e9, 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

About the Author

Alfred W. McCoy is the J. R. W. Smail Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of A Question of Torture and The Politics of Heroin. Francisco A. Scarano is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Puerto Rico: Cinco siglos de historia.

Reviews

"The superb essays in this volume admirably provide a broad approach to understanding the centuries-long growth of American power." - Walter LaFeber, author of The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 "Colonial Crucible is precisely the book we need now, in the aftermath of Abu Ghraib and all the other revelations about the 'mission' in Iraq.... An essential reference book on the consequences of empire." - Lloyd Gardner, author of The Long Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present"