Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index.
Contents:
Short cuts: the Panama Railroad and the making of the Yankee Strip -- Panama as St. Martin's-le-Grand: communication and mobility in Trollope's the West Indies and the Spanish Main -- Photographing Panama: Eadweard Muybridge and transhemispheric modernity -- The dissonant lyre: the Panama poetry of J.S. Gilbert, "Kipling of the Isthmus" -- Epilogue: The isthmus as tourist paradise.
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