Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. In pursuit of profit
6. 1. Fur Sealing and Unsettled Sovereignties 25
7. 2. Crossing the Rift: American Steel and Colonial Labor in Britain’s East Africa Protectorate 46
8. Part II. Transimperial politics
9. 3. “Our Indian Empire”: The Transimperial Origins of U.S. Liberal Imperialism 69
10. 4. Empire, Democracy, and Discipline: The Transimperial History of the Secret Ballot 93
11. 5. Medicine to Drug: Opium’s Transimperial Journey 112
12. Part III. Governing structures
13. 6. One Service, Three Systems, Many Empires: The U.S. Consular Service and the Growth of U.S. Global Power, 1789–1924 135
14. 7. Transimperial Roots of American Anti-Imperialism: The Transatlantic Radicalism of Free Trade, 1846–1920 159
15. 8. The Permeable South: Imperial Interactivities in the Islamic Philippines, 1899–1930s 183
16. Part IV. Living transimperially
17. 9. African American Migration and the Climatic Language of Anglophone Settler Colonia 205
18. 10. Entangled in Empires: British Antillean Migrations in the World of the Panama Canal 222
19. 11. World War II and the Promise of Normalcy: Overlapping Empires and Everyday Lives in the Philippines 241
20. Part V. Resistance across empires
21. 12. Fighting John Bull and Uncle Sam: South Asian Revolutionaries Confront the Modern State 261
22. 13. Indigenous Child Removal and Transimperial Indigenous Women’s Activism across Settler Colonial Nations in the Late Twentieth Century 281
23. Bibliography 303
24. Contributors 335
25. Index 339