附註:Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-268) and index.
Introduction : criticism in the contact zone -- pt. 1. Science and sentiment, 1750-1800 -- Science, planetary consciousness, interiors -- Narrating the anti-conquest -- Anti-conquest II : the mystique of reciprocity -- Eros and abolition -- pt. 2. The reinvention of America, 1800-50 -- Reinventing America II : the capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales -- Reinventing America/reinventing Europe : Creole self-fashioning -- pt. 3. Imperial stylistics, 1860-2007 -- From the Victoria N'yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador -- In the neocolony : modernity, mobility, globality.
