Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Countries in the Americas Today and Their European Colonizers -- American Nations and European Colonies in 1830 -- Dates of Independence in the Americas -- Introduction: Americanizing the Conversation on Nationalism -- Nationalism Matters -- Interpreting New World Nationalism -- State and National Identities in the Era of the American Revolution -- Americans Forging a New Nation, 1860-1916 -- Nationalism in Canada -- Language, History, and Politics in Argentine Identity, 1840-1880 -- Imagining la raza argentina -- The regeneración de la raza in Colombia -- Revolution and Imagined Communities in Mexico, 1810-1821 -- European Travelers and the Writing of the Brazilian Nation -- Caudillo Nationalism in Bolivia -- Slavery, Citizenship, and National Identity in Brazil and the U.S. South -- Race and Nation in the United States, Mexico, and Cuba, 1880-1940 -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.