Imperial Islands : : Art, Architecture, and Visual Experience in the US Insular Empire after 1898 /

Imperial Islands : : Art, Architecture, and Visual Experience in the US Insular Empire after 1898 / / ed. by Joseph R. Hartman.

When the USS Maine mysteriously exploded in Havana’s harbor on February 15, 1898, the United States joined local rebel forces to avenge the Maine and “liberate” Cuba from the Spanish empire. “Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!” so went the popular slogan. Little did the Cubans know that the Uni...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
MitwirkendeR:
Acierto, Alejandro T.,
Balaschak, Chris,
Frain, Sylvia C.,
Gardenour Walter, Brenda S.,
Hartman, Joseph R.,
Kamehiro, Stacy L.,
Miller, Bonnie M.,
Morawski, Erica,
Morley, Ian,
Niell, Paul B.,
Stricklin, Krystle,
Thompson, Lanny,
Vernon, Christopher,
Walter, Brenda S. Gardenour,
HerausgeberIn:
Hartman, Joseph R.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]
©2022
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Perspectives on the Global Past
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 72 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: How to See an Empire
  • Part I. Bone Machine: Mapping and Murder in America’s Insular Empire
  • 1 Map-Mindedness in the Age of Empire: The Role of Maps in Shaping US Imperial Interests in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, 1898–1904
  • 2 Military Cartography and the Terrains of Visibility: The Field Books of Lt. William H. Armstrong, Puerto Rico, 1908–1912
  • 3 With a Skull in Each Hand: Boneyard Photography in the American Empire after 1898
  • 4 Sustained Constraint: Locating Corporeal Control through Archived Images of the Breath in the Philippines after 1898
  • Part II. Making Our Empire Beautiful: Archipelagos of Whiteness after 1898
  • 5 Architecture, Domestic Space, and the Imperial Gaze in the Puerto Rico Chapters of Our Islands and Their People (1899)
  • 6 The Kilohana Art League: The Aesthetics of Annexation, 1894–1913
  • 7 The 1905 Report on Proposed Improvements at Manila by Daniel Burnham: The American Imperium in Textual and Urban Design Form
  • 8 Manufacturing American Imperial Landscapes in the Tropics: Baguio and Balboa
  • Part III. Negotiating Paradise: Design, Environment, and Identity in the Modern Era
  • 9 Havana’s Early Modern Hotels: Accommodating Colonialism, Independence, and Imperialism
  • 10 Forest Formats: Photography, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean Forester
  • 11 Making Islands Beautiful (Again?): Rhetorics of Neoclassicism in the US Insular Empire
  • Part IV. War, Resistance, and Spatial Experience in the Pacific
  • 12 Colonial Concrete: American Architectures of Containment and Marshallese Reinscription of Space as Resistance
  • 13 Images of Empire and Visualizing Resistance in Guam (Guåhan)
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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