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