Part I. The Imperialist Imaginary
1. Manifest Domesticity — Amy Kaplan
2. Imperial Missions, Nationalist Myths, and the Alien‐Other — Laura Wexler
3. Romance and the Empire of the Homeland — Shirley Samuels
4. Sentimental Racism — Jane Tompkins
Part II. Representing Imperial Relations
5. The Imperial Unconscious — Christopher Castiglia
6. Empire and the Erotics of Black Nationalism — Michele Wallace
7. Daughters of the Revolution — Mary Louise Pratt
8. The Foreignness of Race — Robyn Wiegman
9. Do We Need a Theory of American Empire? — Walter Benn Michaels
Part III. Material Practices
10. Money, Mobility, and U.S. Global Power — Donald E. Pease
11. The U.S. Colonial State and Gendered Labor — Nerissa S. Balce
12. Reading American Expansionism in the Pacific — Paul Lyons
13. The Political Economy of Empire — Amy Kaplan
14. Technologies of Power — Laura Doyle
Part IV. Counter-Narratives and Resistance
15. Narrating Resistance — José David Saldívar
16. Postcolonial Criticism and United States Empire — Caren Kaplan
17. Gender, Empire, and the Family — Shelley Streeby
18. Immigrant Acts and Empire — Lisa Lowe
19. Cultural Fronts — Eric Lott
Part V. Global and Comparative Perspectives
20. Border Matters — José David Saldívar
21. Empire and the Globalization of Culture — Masao Miyoshi
22. American Studies as Imperial Studies — Donald E. Pease
23. America’s Imperial Unconscious — Amy Kaplan
24. Beyond Empire — Donald E. Pease
1. Manifest Domesticity — Amy Kaplan
2. Imperial Missions, Nationalist Myths, and the Alien‐Other — Laura Wexler
3. Romance and the Empire of the Homeland — Shirley Samuels
4. Sentimental Racism — Jane Tompkins
Part II. Representing Imperial Relations
5. The Imperial Unconscious — Christopher Castiglia
6. Empire and the Erotics of Black Nationalism — Michele Wallace
7. Daughters of the Revolution — Mary Louise Pratt
8. The Foreignness of Race — Robyn Wiegman
9. Do We Need a Theory of American Empire? — Walter Benn Michaels
Part III. Material Practices
10. Money, Mobility, and U.S. Global Power — Donald E. Pease
11. The U.S. Colonial State and Gendered Labor — Nerissa S. Balce
12. Reading American Expansionism in the Pacific — Paul Lyons
13. The Political Economy of Empire — Amy Kaplan
14. Technologies of Power — Laura Doyle
Part IV. Counter-Narratives and Resistance
15. Narrating Resistance — José David Saldívar
16. Postcolonial Criticism and United States Empire — Caren Kaplan
17. Gender, Empire, and the Family — Shelley Streeby
18. Immigrant Acts and Empire — Lisa Lowe
19. Cultural Fronts — Eric Lott
Part V. Global and Comparative Perspectives
20. Border Matters — José David Saldívar
21. Empire and the Globalization of Culture — Masao Miyoshi
22. American Studies as Imperial Studies — Donald E. Pease
23. America’s Imperial Unconscious — Amy Kaplan
24. Beyond Empire — Donald E. Pease