From the Book - 1st ed; 3rd paperback printing, 1998.
1. Nature and its enigmatic images in American lore.
2. Wild people in wild lands: early American views of Latin Americans.
3. Latin Americans and Indians: ambiguous perceptions of an alleged connection.
4. Our frontier and theirs: American perceptions of Latin American backwardness.
5. America in the age of the new imperialism.
6. From arielism to modernism: hemispheric visions in the age of Roosevelt and Wilson.
7. The twenties: normalcy, counterculture, and clashing perceptions of Latin America.
8. The quest for equilibrium with nature: the good neighbor policy, 1933-1945.
9. America's postwar generation: new variations on old themes.
10. Change and permanence in myths and sterotypes: civilization and nature toward century's end.