Ancestries -- Seventy centuries of city-splitting -- Before race mattered -- The long shadow of the Ziggurat -- Segregating strangers -- Scapegoat ghettos -- Quarters for classes, crafts, clans, castes, and the sexes -- Ancient and medieval legacies -- Color and race come to the city -- White town/black town -- Governor Pitt's Madras -- The rise and fall of American (and South African) segregation in colonial times -- Eastward connections -- The cross-colonial color connection -- Color before race -- Race and the London-Calcutta connection -- The modern way to split a city -- How London conquered and divided Calcutta -- Race and the imperial city -- The London-Calcutta sanitation connection -- The West End's White Town connection -- London's Calcutta problem -- Surges of segregation in the colonies -- The stations Raj -- Paradoxes of detachment and dependence -- Beyond Calcutta -- Stations of the empire -- "Bring your cities and stations within the pale of civilization" -- Stations for sale? -- Beyond India -- Segregating the Pacific -- Incomings and outgoings -- Segregating China's gateways -- Tides in the Pacific -- Segregating all oceans -- Segregation mania -- A call to all continents -- The germ theory of segregation -- Segregation sails East with the plague -- Hunting rats, fleas, and mosquitoes in Africa -- The high tide of segregation mania -- The long end of the craze -- Legacies of the mania -- The outer limits of colonial urbanism -- Imperial monuments, imperial tombstones -- French connections -- A French Calcutta? -- Planet Haussmann -- Splitting cities, beaux-arts style -- Sunset at New Delhi -- A bitter epitaph -- The archsegregationists -- The multifarious segregation of Johannesburg -- Archsegregationism and the wider world -- Squaring race and civilization -- A keystone of global anglo-saxondom -- The birth of "separate development" -- From labor control to "influx control" -- Grandparents of the group areas -- The furies fly in the settlers' city -- Arrogance and its agonies -- The intimacies of race war -- They will buy us out of the country -- Pandora's segregationism -- The birth pangs of nation-state segregation -- Camouflaging the color line in Chicago -- A subtler sort of segregation? -- Segregating the United States -- Jim-crowing the neighborhoods -- Segregation by profiteer, protective association, and pogrom -- A time for camouflage -- The "iron ring"? -- Segregation at the extremes -- Split cities and the global cataclysm -- Hitler's "death boxes" -- A new deal for America's color lines -- The sinister synthesis of apartheid -- Fragmented legacies -- Outflanking a global revolution -- Age of liberation, age of apocalypse -- Have ghettos gone global? -- Postcolonial and neocolonial city-splitting -- A new century of settler segregation? -- Epilogue: people, the planet, and segregated cities.