Introduction : the American Pacific : an errand into Oceania
The "superlative and poetry of commerce" : scattered origins of an American Pacific frontier
An American Pacific Jeremiad : Frank Norris's The octopus and U.S. imperialism
The American Asiatic association and the imperialist imaginary of the American Pacific
Becoming Hawaiian : Jack London, cultural tourism, and the myth of Hawaiian exceptionalism
Maxine Hong Kingston's China men : frontiers of the Chinese American Pacific
Memories of a forgotten war : a Filipino/American ghost story
Conclusion : outside in the American Pacific.