Close ecounters: toward a new cultural history of U.S.-Latin American relations / Gilbert M. Joseph -- The decentered center and the expansionist periphery: the paradoxes of foreign-local encounter / Steve J. Stern -- The enterprise of knowledge: representational machines of informal empire / Ricardo D. Salvatore -- Landscape and the imperial subject: U.S. images of the Andes, 1859-1930 / Deborah Poole -- Love in the tropics: marriage, divorce, and the construction of benevolent colonialism in Puerto Rico, 1898-1910 / Eileen J. Findlay -- Mercenaries in the theater of war: publicity, technology, and the illusion of power during the Brazilian naval revolt of 1893 / Steven C. Topik -- The Sandino rebellion revisited: civil war, imperialism, popular nationalism, and state formation mudded up together in the Segovias of Nicaragua, 1926-1934 / Michael J. Schroeder -- The cult of the airplane among U.S. military men and Dominicans during the U.S. occupation and the Trujillo regime / Eric Paul Roorda -- Central American encounters with Rockefeller public health, 1914-1921 / Steven Palmer -- Living in Macondo: economy and culture in a United Fruit Company banana enclave in Colombia / Catherine C. LeGrand -- From welfare capitalism to the free market in Chile: gender, culture, and politics in the copper mines / Thomas Miller Klubock -- Everyday forms of transnational collaboration: U.S. film propaganda in cold war Mexico / Seth Fein -- Gringo chickens with worms: food and nationalism in the Dominican Republic / Lauren Derby -- Turning to culture / Emily S. Rosenberg -- Social fields and cultural encounters / William Roseberry -- From the reading to seeing: doing and undoing imperialism in the visual arts / Maria del Carmen Suescun Pozas