Amy S. Greenberg is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She is also the author of Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City (1998). She has served on the governing boards of the Urban History Association, and the Society for Historians of the Early America Republic, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Urban History. She is the recipient of the Pennsylvania State University George Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching, as well as numerous fellowships.
Introduction
1. The 'New Frontier' as safety valve: the political and social context of manifest destiny, 1800-60
2. An American Central America: boosters, travelers, and the persistence of Manifest destiny
3. American men abroad: sex and violence in the Latin American travelogue
4. William Walker and the regeneration of martial manhood
5. The irresistible pirate: Narciso López and the public meeting
6. American womanhood abroad
7. Manifest destiny and manly missionaries: expansionism in the Pacific
Conclusion: American manhood and war, 1860 to the present.
