Part I. 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

Part II. 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-White Town connection ; London's Calcutta problem

Part III. 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 ; Two 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

Part IV. 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

Part V. 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.