Introduction : magnet South
Nationalization / The Plantation South
The problem of the plantation
Putting the colonial past in its place
Domestic possession and the imperial impulse
The enemy within
Industrialization and expansion / The slave South
Underwriting free labor and free soil
American universal geography
Dark satanic fields
The masterwork of national literature
The question of empire / The Reconstruction South
Abandoned lands and exceptional empire
The glory of disaster
Internal islands and the American scene, 1898/1905.