Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Introduction: Magnet South Nationalization / The Plantation South 1
5. The Problem of the Plantation 19
6. Putting the Colonial Past in Its Place 42
7. Domestic Possession and the Imperial Impulse 64
8. The Enemy Within 91
9. Industrialization and Expansion / The Slave South 113
10. Underwriting Free Labor and Free Soil 115
11. American Universal Geography 145
12. Dark Satanic Fields 169
13. The Masterwork of National Literature 193
14. The Question of Empire / The Reconstruction South 225
15. Abandoned Lands and Exceptional Empire 227
16. The Glory of Disaster 252
17. Internal Islands and the American Scene, 1898–1905 273
18. Notes 291
19. Acknowledgments 349
20. Index 351