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

705 Pages·2009·0.41 MB·English

by  Alfred W. McCoy

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Empire in the Making of the
Modern American State
Edited by
Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano
the university of wisconsin press
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Colonial crucible : empire in the making of the modern American
state / edited by Alfred W. McCoy and Francisco A. Scarano.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-299-23104-0(pbk. : alk. paper)
isbn 978-0-299-23103-3(e-book)
1. Imperialism—United States. 2.United States—Foreign relations—1897–1901.
3. United States—Foreign relations—1901–1909. 4.United States—Territorial expansion.
I. McCoy, Alfred W. II. Scarano, Francisco A. (Francisco Antonio)
e713.c68 2009
973.88—dc22
2008043120
For
illiam ppleman illiams 1921 1990
W A W ( – )
and his colleagues in the
Wisconsin School of U.S. Diplomatic History

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
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