The Resource Mobility and modernity : Panama in the nineteenth-century Anglo-American imagination, Robert D. Aguirre
Mobility and modernity : Panama in the nineteenth-century Anglo-American imagination, Robert D. Aguirre
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- Summary
- "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 languages of mobility, time, and speed to cast the isthmus as an in-between place, a point of connection to more important destinations. These discourses served an important role in their own day and laid the imaginative ground for the canal to come. In this study, Robert D. Aguirre provides bold new interpretations of Anthony Trollope, John Lloyd Stephens, and Eadweard Muybridge and also recovers information about literary communities previously lost to history. Mobility and Modernity shows how Panama became defined as a site of incipient globalization and a crucial link of empire. Across this narrow strip of land people and things traveled, technology developed, and political forces erupted. The isthmus became a site of mobility that paradoxically produced varieties of immobility. Parting ways with histories that celebrate the canal as a mighty engineering feat, Mobility and Modernity reveals a more complex story of cultural conflict that began with the first gold rush news in the late 1840s and continued throughout the century."--Publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780814275214
- Label
- Mobility and modernity : Panama in the nineteenth-century Anglo-American imagination
- Title
- Mobility and modernity
- Title remainder
- Panama in the nineteenth-century Anglo-American imagination
- Statement of responsibility
- Robert D. Aguirre
- Subject
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- HISTORY -- Latin America | Mexico
- History
- Illustrated works
- Illustrated works
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General
- Literature
- Panama
- Panama -- History
- Panama -- Panama Canal
- Panama Canal (Panama) -- Description and travel
- Panama Canal (Panama) -- History -- 19th century
- Panama Canal (Panama) -- In literature
- 1800-1899
- Panama Railroad Co
- Panama Railroad Co -- History
- Pictorial works
- Travel
- Travelers' writings, American
- Travelers' writings, American
- Travelers' writings, British
- Travelers' writings, British
- Panama Canal (Panama) -- Pictorial works
- Electronic books
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 languages of mobility, time, and speed to cast the isthmus as an in-between place, a point of connection to more important destinations. These discourses served an important role in their own day and laid the imaginative ground for the canal to come. In this study, Robert D. Aguirre provides bold new interpretations of Anthony Trollope, John Lloyd Stephens, and Eadweard Muybridge and also recovers information about literary communities previously lost to history. Mobility and Modernity shows how Panama became defined as a site of incipient globalization and a crucial link of empire. Across this narrow strip of land people and things traveled, technology developed, and political forces erupted. The isthmus became a site of mobility that paradoxically produced varieties of immobility. Parting ways with histories that celebrate the canal as a mighty engineering feat, Mobility and Modernity reveals a more complex story of cultural conflict that began with the first gold rush news in the late 1840s and continued throughout the century."--Publisher's description
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Aguirre, Robert D
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Panama Railroad Co
- Panama Railroad Co
- Panama Canal (Panama)
- Panama
- Travelers' writings, British
- Travelers' writings, American
- Panama Canal (Panama)
- Panama Canal (Panama)
- Panama Canal (Panama)
- HISTORY
- Literature
- Travel
- Travelers' writings, American
- Travelers' writings, British
- Panama
- Panama
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General
- Label
- Mobility and modernity : Panama in the nineteenth-century Anglo-American imagination, Robert D. Aguirre
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- on1000154279
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780814275214
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv151172r
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1000154279
- Label
- Mobility and modernity : Panama in the nineteenth-century Anglo-American imagination, Robert D. Aguirre
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- on1000154279
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780814275214
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctv151172r
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1000154279
Subject
- HISTORY -- Latin America | Mexico
- History
- Illustrated works
- Illustrated works
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General
- Literature
- Panama
- Panama -- History
- Panama -- Panama Canal
- Panama Canal (Panama) -- Description and travel
- Panama Canal (Panama) -- History -- 19th century
- Panama Canal (Panama) -- In literature
- 1800-1899
- Panama Railroad Co
- Panama Railroad Co -- History
- Pictorial works
- Travel
- Travelers' writings, American
- Travelers' writings, American
- Travelers' writings, British
- Travelers' writings, British
- Panama Canal (Panama) -- Pictorial works
- Electronic books
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