Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Intimidations of Empire: Predicaments of the Tactile and Unseen 1
6. Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies 23
7. Convergence and Comparison
8. Samoa’s Half-Castes and Some Frontiers of Comparison 71
9. States of Hygiene: Race ‘‘Improvement’’ and Biomedical Citizenship in Australia and the Colonial Philippines 94
10. Adjudicating Intimacies on U.S. Frontiers 116
11. Proper Caresses and Prudent Distance: A How-To Manual from Colonial Louisiana 140
12. ‘‘His Kingdom for a Kiss’’: Indians and Intimacy in the Narrative of John Marrant 163
13. Proximities of Power
14. The Intimacies of Four Continents 191
15. Body Work in the Antebellum United States 213
16. Fractions and Fictions in the United States Census of 1890 240
17. The Fair Ensemble: Kate Chopin in St. Louis in 1904 271
18. ‘‘The Perfect Mistress of Russian Economy’’: Sighting the Intimate on a Colonial Alaskan Terrain, 1784–182 297
19. Circuits of Knowledge Production
20. An Empire of Tests: Psychometrics and the Paradoxes of Nationalism in the Americas 325
21. Making ‘‘American’’ Families: Transnational Adoption and U.S. Latin America Policy 344
22. The Darkness That Enters the Home: The Politics of Prostitution during the Philippine-American War 366
23. Ordering Others: U.S. Financial Advisers in the Early Twentieth Century 405
24. Refractions
25. Internal Colonialism and Gender 427
26. Commentary 452
27. Afterword 469
28. Bibliography 473
29. Contributors 531
30. Index 535