Empires rise and expand by taking lands and resources and by enslaving the bodies and minds of people. Even in this modern era, the territories, geographies, an

Analysis of the American presence on the Isle of Pines illustrates how US influence adapted and endured in republican-era Cuba.

Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to

When tourists travel, they often seek the exotic. The farther they venture, the more unique the cultures they gaze upon, the greater the prestige accrued; cross

Accounts of U.S. empire building in Latin America typically portray politically and economically powerful North Americans descending on their southerly neighbor