Preface. Our Island Frontier: The Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Cuba

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface. Our Island Frontier: The Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Cuba vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. Islands of Empire 1
6. Chapter One. Foreign Domestics: The Filipino “Home Front” in World War II Popular Culture 31
7. Chapter Two. Imperial Grief: Loss and Longing in Havana before Castro 60
8. Chapter Three. Paradise, Hawaiian Style: Pop Tourism and the State of Hawaiʻi 93
9. Chapter Four. Tropical Metropolis: West Side Stories and Colonial Redemption 132
10. Chapter Five. The Guam Doctrine: Colonial Limbo in the Pacific 167
11. Afterword. Whither Empire? The Colonial Complex of U.S. Popular Culture 190
12. Notes 205
13. Works Cited 215
14. Index 223