Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Part 1: American Sensations
6. 1. Introduction: City and Empire in the American 1848 1
7. 2. George Lippard’s 1848: Empire, Amnesia, and the U.S.-Mexican War 38
8. Part 2: Foreign Bodies and International Race Romance in the Story Papers
9. 3. The Story-Paper Empire 81
10. 4. Foreign Bodies and International Race Romance 102
11. 5. From Imperial Adventure to Bowery B’hoys and Buffalo Bill: Ned Buntline, Nativism, and Class 139
12. Part 3: Land, Labor, and Empire in the Dime Novel
13. 6. The Contradictions of Anti-Imperialism 161
14. 7. The Hacienda, the Factory, and the Plantation 189
15. 8. The Dime Novel, the Civil War, and Empire 214
16. Part 4: Beyond 1848
17. 9. Joaquín Murrieta and Popular Culture 251
18. Notes 291
19. Bibliography 343
20. Index 379