Table of Contents
Introduction: Looking Beyond the Logo Map 3
A Note on Language 21
Part I The Colonial Empire
1 The Fall and Rise of Daniel Boone 25
2 Indian Country 36
3 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Guano but Were Afraid to Ask 46
4 Teddy Roosevelt's Very Good Day 59
5 Empire State of Mind 73
6 Shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom 88
7 Outside the Charmed Circle 108
8 White City 122
9 Doctors Without Borders 137
10 Fortress America 154
11 Warfare State 171
12 There Are Times When Men Have to Die 187
Part II The Pointillist Empire
13 Kilroy Was Here 215
14 Decolonizing the United States 227
15 Nobody Knows in America, Puerto Rico's in America 242
16 Synthetics 262
17 This Is What God Hath Wrought 278
18 The Empire of the Red Octagon 298
19 Language Is a Virus 317
20 Power Is Sovereignty, Mister Bond 336
21 Baselandia 355
22 The War of Points 372
Conclusion: Enduring Empire 391
Notes 403
Acknowledgments 485
Index 489