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Mobility and modernity : Panama in the nineteenth-century Anglo-American imagination /

"Mobility and Modernity: Panama in the Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Imagination rewrites the history of the Panama Canal, assessing for the first time the literary culture of the preceding decades. In this period, U.S. and British writers and visual artists developed sophisticated language...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aguirre, Robert D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.