Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Figures x
5. Introduction—Beyond Manifest Destiny: American Studies, National Identity, and Other Worlds 1
6. 1 The World as Pedagogical Spectacle: Antebellum Geography Textbooks 27
7. 2 “Precepts Graven on Every Breast”: Melville’s Typee, Polynesia, and the Forms of the Law 61
8. 3 Desire, Transgression, and the Holy Land 97
9. 4 The Archaeological Sublime of Tropical America: Ephraim G. Squier and John L. Stephens 150
10. 5 Outgrowing the Boundaries of North America: Martin R. Delany, Africa, and the Question of African-American Agency 194
11. Conclusion—The World Archive and the National Canon of Memory 243
12. Notes 267
13. Works Cited 301