Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Empires, Nations, and States
5. Chapter 1. The Indian Boundary Line and the Imperialization of U.S.–Indian Affairs 27
6. Chapter 2. The Sutler’s Empire: Frontier Merchants and Imperial Authority, 1790–1811 45
7. Chapter 3. How Native Nations Survived the Imperial Republic 63
8. Chapter 4. Catawba Women and Imperial Land Encroachment 83
9. Chapter 5. An Empire of Indian Titles: Private Land Claims in Early American Louisiana, 1803–40 100
10. Chapter 6. “A Slave State in Embryo”: Indian Territory, Native Sovereignty, and the Expansion of Slavery’s Empire 118
11. Part II. Continent and Globe
12. Chapter 7. American Protestant Missionaries, Native Hawaiian Authority, and Religious Freedom in Hawai‘i, ca. 1827–50 139
13. Chapter 8. “The Colony Must Be Broken Up”: The Liberian Settler “Rebellion” of 1823–24 158
14. Chapter 9. Freedom in Chains: U.S. Empire and the Illegal Slave Trade 179
15. Chapter 10. An Empire of Illusions: Paul Cuffe, Martin Delany, and African American Benevolent Empire Building in Africa 202
16. Part III. The Ideologies of Empire
17. Chapter 11. Imperialism and the American Imagination 227
18. Chapter 12. Pax Americana? The Imperial Ambivalence of American Peace Reformers 248
19. Chapter 13. Mercenary Ambivalence: Military Violence in Antebellum America’s Wars of Empire 265
20. Notes 279
21. List of Contributors 333
22. Index 337
23. Editors’ Acknowledgments 341