Emily S. Rosenberg is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900–1930 and A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory, both also published by Duke University Press, and the editor of A World Connecting, 1870–1945.
Shanon Fitzpatrick is a Faculty Lecturer in the Department of History at McGill University.
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Emily S. Rosenberg and Shanon Fitzpatrick, eds.

Introduction / Emily S. Rosenberg and Shanon Fitzpatrick 1
1. Colonial Crossings: Prostitution, Disease, and the Boundaries of Empire During the Philippine-American War / Paul A. Kramer 17
2. Moral, Purposeful, and Healthful: The World of Child's Play, Bodybuilding, and Nation-Building at the American Circus / Janet M. Davis 42
3. Making Broken Bodies Whole in a Shell-Shocked World / Annessa C. Stagner 61
4. Physical Culture's World of Bodies: Transnational Participatory Pastiche and the Body Politics of America's Globalized Mass Culture / Shanon Fitzpatrick 83
5. "The Most Beautiful Chinese Girl in the World": Anna May Wong's Transnational Racial Modernity / Shirley Jennifer Lim 109
6. Roosevelt's Body and National Power / Frank Costigliola 125
7. Making "Brown Babies": Race and Gender after World War II / Brenda Gayle Plummer 147
8. Regulating Borders and Bodies: U.S. Immigration and Public Health Policy / Natalia Molina 173
9. The American Look: The Nation in the Shape of a Woman / Emily S. Rosenberg 189
10. Sammy Lee: Narratives of Asian American Masculinity and Race in Decolonizing Asia / Mary Tsing Yi Lui 209
11. Counting the Bodies in Vietnam / Marilyn B. Young 230
12. "Nobody Wants These People": Reagan's Immigration Crisis and the Containment of Foreign Bodies / Kristina Shull 241
Epilogue. When the Body Disappears / Emily S. Rosenberg and Shanon Fitzpatrick 264
Bibliography 289
Contributors 317
Index 321