Imperial Islands: Art, Architecture, and Visual Experience in the US Insular Empire after 1898

Published by University of Hawaii Press 2022

Imperial Islands

Art, Architecture, and Visual Experience in the US Insular Empire after 1898

Edited by: Joseph R. Hartman
With contributions by: Alejandro T. Acierto , Chris Balaschak , Sylvia C. Frain , Joseph R. Hartman , Stacy L. Kamehiro , Bonnie M. Miller , Erica Morawski , Ian Morley , Paul B. Niell , Krystle Stricklin , Lanny Thompson , Christopher Vernon and Brenda S. Gardenour Walter

In the series Perspectives on the Global Past

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824890391

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When the USS Maine mysteriously exploded in Havana’s harbor on February 15, 1898, the United States joined local rebel forces to avenge the Maine and “liberate” Cuba from the Spanish empire. “Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!” So went the popular slogan. Little did the Cubans know that the United States was not going to give them freedom—in less than a year the American flag replaced the Spanish flag over the various island colonies of Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. Spurred by military successes and dreams of an island empire, the US annexed Hawai‘i that same year, even establishing island colonies throughout Micronesia and the Antilles.

With the new governmental orders of creating new art, architecture, monuments, and infrastructure from the United States, the island cultures of the Caribbean and Pacific were now caught in a strategic scope of a growing imperial power. These spatial and visual objects created a visible confrontation between local indigenous, African, Asian, Spanish, and US imperial expressions. These material and visual histories often go unacknowledged, but serve as uncomplicated “proof” for the visible confrontation between the US and the new island territories. The essays in this volume contribute to an important art-historical, visual cultural, architectural, and materialist critique of a growing body of scholarship on the US Empire and the War of 1898.

Imperial Islands seeks to reimagine the history and cultural politics of art, architecture, and visual experience in the US insular context. The authors of this volume propose a new direction of visual culture and spatial experience through nuanced terrains for writing, envisioning, and revising US-American, Caribbean, and Pacific histories. These original essays address the role of art and architecture in expressions of state power; racialized and gendered representations of the United States and its island colonies; and forms of resistance to US cultural presence. Featuring interdisciplinary approaches, Imperial Islands offers readers a new way of learning the ongoing significance of vision and experience in the US empire today, particularly for Caribbean, Latinx, Pilipinx, and Pacific Island communities.

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Hartman Joseph R. :

Joseph R. Hartman is assistant professor of art history and Latinx and Latin American studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.Hartman Joseph R. :

Joseph R. Hartman is assistant professor of art history and Latinx and Latin American studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.Joseph R. Hartman is assistant professor of art history and Latinx and Latin American studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: How to See an Empire Joseph R. Hartman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Bone Machine: Mapping and Murder in America’s Insular Empire
1 Map-Mindedness in the Age of Empire: The Role of Maps in Shaping US Imperial Interests in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, 1898–1904 Bonnie M. Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2 Military Cartography and the Terrains of Visibility: The Field Books of Lt. William H. Armstrong, Puerto Rico, 1908–1912 Lanny Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3 With a Skull in Each Hand: Boneyard Photography in the American Empire after 1898 Krystle Stricklin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
4 Sustained Constraint: Locating Corporeal Control through Archived Images of the Breath in the Philippines after 1898 Alejandro T. Acierto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Part II. Making Our Empire Beautiful: Archipelagos of Whiteness after 1898
5 Architecture, Domestic Space, and the Imperial Gaze in the Puerto Rico Chapters of Our Islands and Their People (1899) Paul B. Niell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
6 The Kilohana Art League: The Aesthetics of Annexation, 1894–1913 Stacy L. Kamehiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
7 The 1905 Report on Proposed Improvements at Manila by Daniel Burnham: The American Imperium in Textual and Urban Design Form Ian Morley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
8 Manufacturing American Imperial Landscapes in the Tropics: Baguio and Balboa Christopher Vernon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Part III. Negotiating Paradise: Design, Environment, and Identity in the Modern Era
9 Havana’s Early Modern Hotels: Accommodating Colonialism, Independence, and Imperialism Erica Morawski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
10 Forest Formats: Photography, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean Forester Chris Balaschak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
11 Making Islands Beautiful (Again?): Rhetorics of Neoclassicism in the US Insular Empire Joseph R. Hartman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Part IV. War, Resistance, and Spatial Experience in the Pacific
12 Colonial Concrete: American Architectures of Containment and Marshallese Reinscription of Space as Resistance Brenda S. Gardenour Walter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
13 Images of Empire and Visualizing Resistance in Guam (Guåhan) Sylvia C. Frain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309

Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 328
Illustrations
- Other: 72 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: November 30, 2021
ISBN: 9780824890391