Introduction: Americanizing the conversation on nationalism / Don H. Doyle and Marco Antonio Pamplona -- Nationalism matters / Craig Calhoun -- Interpreting new world nationalism / T.H. Breen -- State and national identities in the era of the American revolution / Jack P. Greene -- Americans forging a new nation, 1860-1916 / Susan-Mary Grant -- Nationalism in Canada / Phillip Buckner -- Language, history, and politics in Argentine identity, 1840-1880 / Jorge Myers -- Imagining la raza Argentina / Jeane DeLaney -- The regeneracioجپn de la raza in Colombia / Hayley Froysland -- Revolution and imagined communities in Mexico, 1810-1821 / Eric Van Young -- European travelers and the writing of the Brazilian nation / Wilma Peres Costa -- Caudillo nationalism in Bolivia / Heather Thiessen-Reily -- Slavery, citizenship, and national identity in Brazil and the U.S. South / Barbara Weinstein -- Race and nation in the United States, Mexico, and Cuba, 1880-1940 / Gary Gerstle