Mobility and modernity : Panama in the nineteenth century Anglo American imagination Short cuts: the Panama Railroad and the making of the Yankee Strip Panama as St. Martins le Grand: communication and mobility in Trollopes 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