Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Part 1: Introduction
Fatal Florescence: Europe's Decolonization and America's Decline
Alfred W. McCoy
Part 2: Spain's Long Imperial Retreat
Eclipse and Collapse of the Spanish Empire, 1650–1898
Josep M. Delgado Ribas
Empires in Retreat: Spain and Portugal after the Napoleonic Wars
Josep M. Fradera
Imperial Ambitions in an Era of Decline: Micromilitarism and the Eclipse of the Spanish Empire, 1858–1923
Stephen Jacobson
"The Empire Is No Longer a Social Unit": Declining Imperial Expectations and Transatlantic Crises in Metropolitan Spain, 1859–1909
Albert Garcia Balañà
Part 3: Imperial Transitions in Latin America and Philippines
Facing South: The Liberal Traditions in the Americas
Greg Grandin
"Alliance Imperialism" and Ango-American Power after 1898: The Origins of Open-Door Internationalism
Courtney Johnson
Pro-Imperialist Nationalists in Spain's Caribbean Empire
Francisco A. Scarano
Imperial Transition in the Philippines: The Making of a Colonial Discourse about Spanish Rule
María-Dolores Elizalde
The Broken Image: The Spanish Empire in the United States after 1898
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara
Part 4: British Global Dominion and Decline
Information and Intelligence in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Crisis in the British Empire
Tony Ballantyne
The Fin-de-siècles of Great Britain and the United States: Comparing Two Declining Phases of Global Capitalist Hegemony
Kelvin Santiago-Valles
The Geopolitics of Decolonization
John Darwin
Part 5: Complexities and Contradictions of French Decolonization
The Absent Empire: The Colonies in French Constitutions
Emmanuelle Saada
When Did Decolonization End? France and the Ending of Empire
Robert Aldrich
Decolonizing France: L.S. Senghor's Redemptive Program for African Socialism
Gary Wilder
Part 6: Subordinate Elites and Imperial Decline in Southeast Asia
Informal Empire: The Case of Siam and the Middle East
Gregory A. Barton
Scientific Patriotism: Medical Science and National Self-Fashioning in Southeast Asia
Warwick Anderson and Hans Pols
Decolonization and the Roots of Democracy
Remco Raben
Part 7: Imperial Decline and National Identities
Natives Who Were Citizens and Natives Who Were Indígenas in the Portuguese Empire, 1900–1926
Cristina Nogueira da Silva
From Subjecthood to Citizenship in South Asia: Migration, Nationality, and the Post-Imperial Global Order
Joya Chatterji
Part 8: U.S. Global Hegemony
The "Three R's" and the Making of a New World Order: Reparation, Reconstruction, Relief, and U.S. Policy, 1945–1952
Greg Bankoff
Entangled Empires: The United States and European Imperial Formations in the Mid-twentieth Century
Julian Go
Cold War Transition: Europe's Decolonization and Eisenhower's System of Subordinate Elites
Brett Reilly
Imperial Illusions: Information Infrastructure and the Future of U.S. Global Power
Alfred McCoy
Contributors
Index