Kristin L. Hoganson is Stanley S. Stroup Professor of United States History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of The Heartland: An American History.
Jay Sexton is Kinder Institute Chair in Constitutional Democracy and Professor of History at the University of Missouri and author of A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History.

Preface  vii
Introduction / Kristin Hoganson and Jay Sexton  1
Part I. In Pursuit of Profit
1. Fur Sealing and Unsettled Sovereignties / John Soluri  25
2. Crossing the Rift: American Steel and Colonial Labor in Britain's East Africa Protectorate / Stephen Tuffnell  46
Part II. Transimperial Politics
3. "Our Indian Empire": The Transimperial Origins of U.S. Liberal Imperialism / Michel Gobat  69
4. Empire, Democracy, and Discipline: The Transimperial History of the Secret Ballot / Julian Go  93
5. Medicine to Drug: Opium's Transimperial Journey / Anne L. Foster  112
Part III. Governing Structures
6. One Service, Three Systems, Many Empires: The U.S. Consular Service and the Growth of U.S. Global Power, 1789-1924 / Nicole M. Phelps  135
7. Transimperial Roots of American Anti-Imperialism: The Transatlantic Radicalism of Free Trade, 1846-1920 / Marc-Williams Palen  159
8. The Permeable South: Imperial Interactivities in the Islamic Philippines, 1899-1930s / Oliver Charbonneau  183
Part IV. Living Transimperially
9. African-American Migration and the Climatic Language of Anglophone Settler Colonialism / Ikuko Asaka  205
10. Entangled in Empires: British Antillean Migrations in the World of the Panama Canal / Julie Greene  222
11. World War II and the Promise of Normalcy: Overlapping Empires and Everyday Lives in the Philippines / Genevieve Clutario  241
Part V. Resistance Across Empires
12. Fighting John Bull and Uncle Sam: South Asian Revolutionaries Confront the Modern State / Moon-Ho Jung  261
13. Indigenous Child Removal and Transimperial Indigenous Women's Activism across Settler Colonial Nations in the Late Twentieth Century / Margaret D. Jacobs  281
Bibliography  303
Contributors  335
Index  339

Kristin L. Hoganson is Stanley S. Stroup Professor of United States History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of The Heartland: An American History.

Jay Sexton is Kinder Institute Chair in Constitutional Democracy and Professor of History at the University of Missouri and author of A Nation Forged by Crisis: A New American History.