Colonial Crucible : Empire in the Making of the Modern American State.

Intro -- 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 Siècle Puerto Rico / Kelvin Santiago-Valles -- Prohibiting Opium in the Philippines and the United States: The Creation of an Interventionist State / Anne L. Foster -- Policiing 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.

Cenuses in the Transition to Modern Colonialism: Spain and the United States in Puerto Rico / Francisco A. Scarno -- 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 -- 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, 1903-1924 / 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 Rebecca 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 / 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 Tyrrell -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.

At the end of the nineteenth century the United States swiftly occupied a string of small islands dotting the Caribbean and Western Pacific, from Puerto Rico and Cuba to Hawaii and the Philippines. Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State reveals how this experiment in direct territorial rule subtly but profoundly shaped U.S. policy and practice--both abroad and, crucially, at home.

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