Introduction : Aloha America -- Lady Jane at the boathouse : the intercultural world of hula -- Modern desires and counter-colonial tactics : gender, performance, and the erotics of empire -- Impresarios on the midway : World's Fairs and colonial politics -- "Hula queens" and "Cinderellas" : imagined intimacy in the empire -- The troupes meet the troops : imperial hospitality and military photography in the Pacific theater -- Epilogue : new hula movements.