The United States and Latin America: myths and stereotypes of civilization and nature

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.