MOBILITY AND MODERNITY: PANAMA IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ANGLO-AMERICAN IMAGINATION
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CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: Mobility and Modernity
CULTURE ON THE MOVE
TEMPORALITIES
PANAMANIAN VOICES
CHAPTER OUTLINES
CHAPTER 1: Short Cuts: The Panama Railroad and the Making of the Yankee Strip
MODERNITY AMONG THE RUINS
TRANSPORT VISIONS
FROM WORLD CHANNEL TO NATIONAL RAILROAD
CHAPTER 2: Panama as St. Martin’s-le-Grand: Communication and Mobility in Trollope’s The West Indies and the Spanish Main
COMMUNICATION, TRANSIT, AND EMPIRE
RACE AND SLAVERY
DIFFERENTIAL MOBILITIES
CHAPTER 3: Photographing Panama: Eadweard Muybridge and Trans-Hemispheric Modernity
MUYBRIDGE, MOBILITY, AND MODERNITY
PANAMA THROUGH THE LENS
TIME AND THE OTHER: MUYBRIDGE’S WASHERWOMEN
CHAPTER 4: The Dissonant Lyre: The Panama Poetry of J. S. Gilbert, “Kipling of the Isthmus”
OUR UNCLE SAM
TROPICAL MELANCHOLIA
LYRIC ETHNOGRAPHY
EPILOGUE: The Isthmus as Tourist Paradise
TOURIST VISIONS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX