Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword by Donald E. Pease -- Introduction: The American Pacific, an Errand into Oceania -- Chapter One: The "Superlative and Poetry of Commerce": Scattered Origins of an American Pacific Frontier -- Chapter Two: An American Pacific Jeremiad: Frank Norris's The Octopus and U.S. Imperialism -- Chapter Three: The American Asiatic Association and the Imperialist Imaginary of the American Pacific -- Chapter Four: Becoming Hawaiian: Jack London, Cultural Tourism, and the Myth of Hawaiian Exceptionalism -- Chapter Five: Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men: Frontiers of the Chinese American Pacific -- Chapter Six: Memories of a Forgotten War: A Filipino/American Ghost Story -- Conclusion: Outside in the American Pacific -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.