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

Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Part 1. Exploring Imperial Transitions......Page 20
On the Tropic of Cancer: Transitions and Transformations in the U.S. Imperial State......Page 22
Reading Imperial Transitions: Spanish Contraction, British Expansion,and American Irruption......Page 53
From Old Empire to New: The Changing Dynamics and Tactics of American Empire......Page 82
Part 2. Police, Prisons, and Law Enforcement......Page 100
Introduction......Page 102
American Penal Forms and Colonial Spanish Custodial-Regulatory Practices in Fin de Siècle Puerto Rico......Page 106
Prohibiting Opium in the Philippines and the United States: The Creation of an Interventionist State......Page 114
Policing the Imperial Periphery: Philippine Pacification and the Rise of the U.S. National Security State......Page 125
“The Prison That Makes Men Free”: The Iwahig Penal Colony and the Simulacra of the American State in the Philippines......Page 135
Part 3. Education......Page 148
Introduction......Page 150
Negotiating Colonialism: “Race,” Class, and Education in Early-Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico......Page 154
Enlightened Tolerance or Cultural Capitulation? Contesting Notions of American Identity......Page 164
The Business of Education in the Colonial Philippines, 1909–30\n......Page 170
The Imperial Enterprise and Educational Policies in Colonial Puerto Rico......Page 182
Confabulating American Colonial Knowledge of the Philippines: What the Social Life of Jose E. Marco’s Forgeries and Ahmed ChalabiCan Tell Us about the Epistemology of Empire......Page 194
Part 4. Race and Imperial Identities......Page 210
Introduction......Page 212
Race, Empire, and Transnational History......Page 218
Censuses in the Transition to Modern Colonialism: Spain and the United States in Puerto Rico......Page 229
Race and the Suffrage Controversy in Cuba, 1898–1901......Page 239
From Columbus to Ponce de León: Puerto Rican Commemorations between Empires, 1893–1908......Page 257
Buying into Empire: American Consumption at the Turn of the Twentieth Century......Page 267
Part 5. Imperial Medicine and Public Health......Page 290
Introduction......Page 292
Pacific Crossings: Imperial Logics in United States’ Public Health Programs......Page 296
A Fever for Empire: U.S. Disease Eradication in Cuba as Colonial Public Health......Page 307
Mapping Regional and Imperial Geographies: Tropical Disease in the U.S. South......Page 316
The Conquest of Molecules: Wild Yams and American Scientists in Mexican Jungles......Page 328
Tropical Conquest and the Rise of the Environmental Management State: The Case of U.S. Sanitary Efforts in Panama......Page 336
Part 6. Polity, Law, and Constitution......Page 346
Introduction......Page 348
Empire and the Transformation of Citizenship......Page 351
The After life of Empire: Sovereignty and Revolution in the Philippines......Page 361
The U.S. Constitution and Philippine Colonialism: An Enduring and Unfortunate Legacy......Page 372
Spanish Structure, American Theory: The Legal Foundations of a Tropical New Deal in the Philippine Islands, 1898–1935......Page 384
The Hazards of Jeffersonianism: Challenges of State Building in the United States and Its Empire......Page 394
Part 7. U.S. Military......Page 410
Introduction: the military and the U.S. Imperial State......Page 412
“Mohammedan Religion Made It Necessary to Fire”: Massacres on the American Imperial Frontier from South Dakota to the Southern Philippines......Page 416
The U.S. Army as an Occupying Force in Muslim Mindanao, 1899–1913......Page 429
Minutemen for the World: Empire, Citizenship, and the National Guard, 1903–1924......Page 440
From Winship to Leahy: Crisis, War, and Transition in Puerto Rico......Page 450
French and American Imperial Accommodation in the Caribbean during World War II: The Experience of Guyane and the Subaltern Roles of Puerto Ricans......Page 460
Guantánamo and the Case of Kid Chicle: Private Contract Labor and the Development of the U.S. Military......Page 471
The Impact of the Philippine Wars (1898–1913) on the U.S. Army......Page 479
Part 8. Environmental Management......Page 492
Introduction: environmental and economic management......Page 494
Conservation and Colonialism: Gifford Pinchot and the Birth of Tropical Forestry in the Philippines......Page 498
Manila’s Imperial Makeover: Security, Health, and Symbolism......Page 508
“‘The World Was My Garden”: Tropical Botany and Cosmopolitanism in American Science, 1898–1935......Page 518
Scientific Superman: Father José Algué, Jesuit Meteorology, and the Philippines under American Rule, 1897–1924......Page 527
Part 9. The Elusive Character of American Global Power......Page 540
The Limits of American Empire: Democracy and Militarism in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries......Page 542
Crucibles, Capillaries, and Pentimenti: Reflections on Imperial Transformations......Page 551
Empire in American History......Page 560
Notes......Page 576
Contributors......Page 664
Index\n......Page 668