Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Magnet South -- Part One - Nationalization / The Plantation South -- 1. The Problem of the Plantation -- 2. Putting the Colonial Past in Its Place -- 3. Domestic Possession and the Imperial Impulse -- 4. The Enemy Within -- Part Two - Industrialization and Expansion / The Slave South -- 5. Underwriting Free Labor and Free Soil -- 6. American Universal Geography -- 7. Dark Satanic Fields -- 8. The Masterwork of National Literature -- Part Three - The Question of Empire /The Reconstruction South -- 9. Abandoned Lands and Exceptional Empire -- 10. The Glory of Disaster -- 11. Internal Islands and the American Scene, 1898-1905 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.