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

Contents

illustrations xi preface xiii 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, 3 and courtney johnson Reading Imperial Transitions: Spanish Contraction, British Expansion, and American Irruption josep m. fradera 34 From Old Empire to New: The Changing Dynamics and Tactics of American Empire thomas mccormick 63 Part 2. Police, Prisons, and Law Enforcement introduction alfred w. mccoy 83 American Penal Forms and Colonial Spanish Custodial-Regulatory Practices in Fin de Siècle Puerto Rico kelvin santiago-valles 87 Prohibiting Opium in the Philippines and the United States: The Creation of an Interventionist State anne l. foster 95 Policing the Imperial Periphery: Philippine Pacification and the Rise of the U.S. National Security State alfred w. mccoy 106 “The Prison That Makes Men Free”: The Iwahig Penal Colony and the Simulacra of the American State in the Philippines michael salman 116 contents Part 3. Education introduction adam nelson 131 Negotiating Colonialism: “Race,” Class, and Education in Early-Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico solsirée del moral 135 Enlightened Tolerance or Cultural Capitulation? Contesting Notions of American Identity amílcar antonio barreto 145 The Business of Education in the Colonial Philippines, 1909–30 glenn anthony may 151 The Imperial Enterprise and Educational Policies in Colonial Puerto Rico pablo navarro-rivera 163 Understanding the American Empire: Colonialism, Latin Americanism, and Professional Social Science, 1898–1920 courtney johnson 175 Part 4. Race and Imperial Identities introduction clare corbould 193 Race, Empire, and Transnational History paul a. kramer 199 Censuses in the Transition to Modern Colonialism: Spain and the United States in Puerto Rico francisco a. scarano 210 Race and the Suffrage Controversy in Cuba, 1898–1901 alejandro de la fuente and matthew casey 220 From Columbus to Ponce de León: Puerto Rican Commemorations between Empires, 1893–1908 christopher schmidt-nowara 230 A Critical-Historical Genealogy of Koko (Blood), ’Aina (Land), Hawaiian Identity, and Western Law and Governance rona tamiko halualani 238 Buying into Empire: American Consumption at the Turn of the Twentieth Century kristin hoganson 248 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 260 Part 5. Imperial Medicine and Public Health introduction nancy tomes 273 Pacific Crossings: Imperial Logics in United States’ Public Health Programs warwick anderson 277 A Fever for Empire: U.S. Disease Eradication in Cuba as Colonial Public Health mariola espinosa 288 Mapping Regional and Imperial Geographies: Tropical Disease in the U.S. South natalie j. ring 297 The Conquest of Molecules: Wild Yams and American Scientists in Mexican Jungles gabriela soto laveaga 309 Tropical Conquest and the Rise of the Environmental Management State: The Case of U.S. Sanitary Efforts in Panama paul s. sutter 317 Part 6. Polity, Law, and Constitution introduction john ohnesorge 329 Empire and the Transformation of Citizenship 332 christina duffy burnett The Afterlife of Empire: Sovereignty and Revolution in the Philippines vicente l. rafael 342 The U.S. Constitution and Philippine Colonialism: An Enduring and Unfortunate Legacy owen j. lynch 353 Spanish Structure, American Theory: The Legal Foundations of a Tropical New Deal in the Philippine Islands, 1898–1935 anna leah fidelis t. castañeda 365 The Hazards of Jeffersonianism: Challenges of State Building in the United States and Its Empire paul d. hutchcroft 375 Part 7. U.S. Military introduction: the military and the u.s. imperial state 393 christopher capozzola “Mohammedan Religion Made It Necessary to Fire”: Massacres on the American Imperial Frontier from South Dakota to the Southern Philippines joshua gedacht 397 The U.S. Army as an Occupying Force in Muslim Mindanao, 1899–1913 patricio n. abinales 410 Minutemen for the World: Empire, Citizenship, and the National Guard, 1903–1924 christopher capozzola 421 From Winship to Leahy: Crisis, War, and Transition in Puerto Rico 431 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 rebeca campo 441 Guantánamo and the Case of Kid Chicle: Private Contract Labor and the Development of the U.S. Military jana k. lipman 452 The Impact of the Philippine Wars (1898–1913) on the U.S. Army brian mcallister linn 460 Part 8. Environmental Management introduction: environmental and economic management j. r. mcneill 475 Conservation and...