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| Introduction | |
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| "Left Alone with America": The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture | |
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| New Perspectives on U.S. Culture and Imperialism | |
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| Nation-Building as Empire-Building | |
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| Why Did the Europeans Cross the Ocean? A Seventeenth-Century Riddle | |
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| Terms of Assimilation: Legislating Subjectivity in the Emerging Nation | |
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| The Naming of Yale College: British Imperialism and American Higher Education | |
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| Savage Law: The Plot Against American Indians in Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. M'Intosh and The Pioneers | |
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| Science Fiction, the World's Fair, and the Prosthetics of Empire, 1910-1915 | |
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| Buffalo Bill's "Wild West" and the Mythologization of the American Empire | |
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| Borderline Negotiations of Race, Gender, and Nation | |
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| White Love: Surveillance and Nationalist Resistance in the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines | |
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| Black and Blue on San Juan Hill | |
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| Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936 | |
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| Americo Paredes and Decolonization | |
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| Pious Sites: Chamorro Culture Between Spanish Catholicism and American Liberal Individualism | |
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| Plotting the Border: John Reed, Pancho Villa, and Insurgent Mexico | |
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| Colonizing Resistance or Resisting Colonization? | |
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| Anti-Imperial Americanism | |
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| Appeals for (Mis)recognition: Theorizing the Diaspora | |
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| Resisting the Heat: Menchu, Morrison, and Incompetent Readers | |
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| Black Americans' Racial Uplift Ideology as "Civilizing Mission" Pauline E. Hopkins on Race and Imperialism | |
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| From Liberalism to Communism: The Political Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois | |
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| White Like Me: Racial Cross-Dressing and the Construction of American Whiteness | |
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| Imperial Spectacles | |
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| "Make My Day!": Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial Politics [and] The Sequel | |
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| The Patriot System, or Managerial Heroism | |
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| Hiroshima, the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial, and the Gulf War Post-National Spectacles | |
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| Techno-Muscularity and the "Boy Eternal": From the Quagmire to the Gulf | |
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| "Bwana Mickey": Constructing Cultural Consumption at Tokyo Disneyland | |
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| We Think, Therefore They Are? On Occidentalizing the World | |
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| Index | |
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| Contributors | |