Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: How to See an Empire 1
5. Part I. Bone Machine: Mapping and Murder in America’s Insular Empire
6. 1 Map-Mindedness in the Age of Empire: The Role of Maps in Shaping US Imperial Interests in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, 1898–1904 17
7. 2 Military Cartography and the Terrains of Visibility: The Field Books of Lt. William H. Armstrong, Puerto Rico, 1908–1912 43
8. 3 With a Skull in Each Hand: Boneyard Photography in the American Empire after 1898 62
9. 4 Sustained Constraint: Locating Corporeal Control through Archived Images of the Breath in the Philippines after 1898 82
10. Part II. Making Our Empire Beautiful: Archipelagos of Whiteness after 1898
11. 5 Architecture, Domestic Space, and the Imperial Gaze in the Puerto Rico Chapters of Our Islands and Their People (1899) 103
12. 6 The Kilohana Art League: The Aesthetics of Annexation, 1894–1913 122
13. 7 The 1905 Report on Proposed Improvements at Manila by Daniel Burnham: The American Imperium in Textual and Urban Design Form 147
14. 8 Manufacturing American Imperial Landscapes in the Tropics: Baguio and Balboa 161
15. Part III. Negotiating Paradise: Design, Environment, and Identity in the Modern Era
16. 9 Havana’s Early Modern Hotels: Accommodating Colonialism, Independence, and Imperialism 189
17. 10 Forest Formats: Photography, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean Forester 208
18. 11 Making Islands Beautiful (Again?): Rhetorics of Neoclassicism in the US Insular Empire 223
19. Part IV. War, Resistance, and Spatial Experience in the Pacific
20. 12 Colonial Concrete: American Architectures of Containment and Marshallese Reinscription of Space as Resistance 247
21. 13 Images of Empire and Visualizing Resistance in Guam (Guåhan) 265
22. Selected Bibliography 287
23. Contributors 305
24. Index 309