Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intimidations of empire : predicaments of the tactile and unseen / Ann Laura Stoler
  • Tense and tender ties : the politics of comparison in North American history and (post) colonial studies / Ann Laura Stoler
  • Samoa's half-castes and some frontiers of comparison / Damon Salesa
  • States of hygiene : race "improvement" and biomedical citizenship in Australia and the colonial Philippines / Warwick Anderson
  • Adjudicating intimacies on U.S. frontiers / Nayan Shah
  • Proper caresses and prudent distance : a how-to manual from colonial Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy
  • "His kingdom for a kiss" : Indians and intimacy in the narrative of John Marrant / Tiya Miles
  • The intimacies of four continents / Lisa Lowe
  • Body work in the antebellum United States / Kathleen Brown
  • Fractions and fictions in the United States census of 1890 / Martha Hodes
  • The fair ensemble : Kate Chopin in St. Louis in 1904 / Laura Wexler
  • "The perfect mistress of Russian economy" : sighting the intimate on a colonial Alaskan terrain, 1784-1821 / Gwenn A. Miller
  • An empire of tests : psychometrics and the paradoxes of nationalism in the Americas / Alexandra Minna Stern
  • Making "American" families : transnational adoption and U.S. Latin America policy / Laura Briggs
  • The darkness that enters the home : the gender politics of prostitution during the Philippine-American war / Paul A. Kramer
  • Ordering others : U.S. financial advisers in the early twentieth century / Emily S. Rosenberg
  • Internal colonialism and gender / Linda Gordon
  • Commentary / Catherine Hall
  • Afterword / Nancy F. Cott.