Title: The United States discovers Panama : the writings of soldiers, scholars, scientists, and scoundrels, 1850-1905 /
Authors: LaRosa, Michael; Mejía P., Germán.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Panama Canal (Panama) History Sources.; Panama History Sources.; Panama Relations United States Sources.; United States Relations Panama Sources.
Contents: A trip on the Panama Railroad -- Panama Railroad -- Darien Exploring Expedition, under command of Lieut. Isaac C. Strain -- Nicaragua : an exploration from ocean to ocean -- The new route through Chiriqui -- The secret of the strait -- Tehuantepec and the Eads Ship Railway -- Short cuts across the globe -- Projects for an isthmian canal -- The trans-isthmian canal problem -- The best isthmian canal -- The tropical renaissance -- The isthmus canal and American control -- Latin and Saxon America -- The diplomacy and law of the isthmian canals -- The strategic features of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea -- Non-intervention and the Monroe Doctrine -- The right and wrong of the Monroe Doctrine.