Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Illustrations XI
4. Preface XIII
5. CHAPTER 1 Nature and Its Enigmatic Images in American Lore 1
6. CHAPTER 2 Wild People in Wild Lands: Early American Views of Latin Americans 44
7. CHAPTER 3 Latin Americans and Indians: Ambiguous Perceptions of an Alleged Connection CHAPTER 3 Latin Americans and Indians: Ambiguous Perceptions of an Alleged Connection 86
8. CHAPTER 4 Our Frontier and Theirs: American Perceptions of Latin American Backwardness 113
9. CHAPTER 5 America in the Age of the New Imperialism 154
10. CHAPTER 6 From Ariel ism to Modernism: Hemispheric Visions in the Age of Roosevelt and Wilson 193
11. CHAPTER 7 The Twenties: Normalcy, Counterculture, and Clashing Perceptions of Latin America 221
12. CHAPTER 8 The Quest for Equilibrium with Nature: The Good Neighbor Policy, 1933-1945 258
13. CHAPTER 9 America's Postwar Generation: New Variations on Old Themes 297
14. CHAPTER 10 Change and Permanence in Myths and Stereotypes: Civilization and Nature toward Century's End 329
15. Notes 367
16. Index 421