U.S. expansion and the woman question, 1870-1929 -- Reconstruction and annexation : suffragists in Washington D.C., and Santo Domingo, 1870-1875 -- Western expansion and the politics of federalism : Indians, Mormons, and territorial statehood, 1878-1887 -- Imperial expansion and the problem of Hawaii, 1898-1902 -- Getting suffrage in an age of empire : the Philippines and Puerto Rico, 1914-1929 -- Epilogue
Summary
Allison Sneider tracks how debates over woman suffrage were framed and reframed in the context of national discussions of citizenship and voting rights for potential new citizens, both within U.S. borders and in the island territories in the Caribbean and the Pacific, from roughly 1870 to 1900
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-193) and index
