American Sensations
  [Dedication]
  Contents
  Illustrations
  Preface

 collapse section1. American Sensations
 expand section1. Introduction
 expand section2. George Lippard's 1848

 collapse section2. Foreign Bodies and  International Race Romance  in the Story Papers
 •3. The Story-Paper Empire
 collapse section4. Foreign Bodies and  International Race Romance
 •FOREIGN BODIES: IMMIGRANT SOLDIERS
 •FOREIGN BODIES:  “MOTLEY AND MERCILESS” MEXICAN MEN  AND CROSS-DRESSED FEMALE AVENGERS
 •5. From Imperial Adventure to  Bowery B'hoys and Buffalo Bill

 collapse section3. Land, Labor, and Empire  in the Dime Novel
 •6. The Contradictions of Anti-Imperialism
 •7. The Hacienda,  the Factory,  and the Plantation
 expand section8. The Dime Novel,  the Civil War, and Empire

 collapse section4. Beyond 1848
 expand section9. Joaquín Murrieta  and Popular Culture

 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionBibliography
  Index
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