Down Panama Way: A Twenty-First-Century Renaissance

• Published in: Latin American Research Review Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 193 - 202
• Main Author: Gudmundson, Lowell
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Pittsburgh Ubiquity Press Ltd 01.03.2023; Cambridge University Press
• Subjects: 20th century; Authoritarianism; Cold War; Populism; Postmodernism; Panama
• ISSN: 1542-4278; 0023-8791; 1542-4278
• DOI: 10.1017/lar.2022.83

This essay reviews the following works: Modern Panama: From Occupation to Crossroads of the Americas . By Michael L. Conniff and Gene E. Bigler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. vii + 346. $32.99 paperback. ISBN: 9781108701198. The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panamá . By James P. Delgado, Tomás Mendizábal, Frederick H. Hanselmann, and Dominique Rissolo. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2016. Pp. viii + 283. $84.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780813062877. Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal . By Marixa Lasso. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 344. $35.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780674984448. The Panama Railroad . By Peter Pyne. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021. Pp. 418. $50.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780253052070. Esperanza Speaks: Confronting a Century of Global Change in Rural Panamá . By Gloria Rudolf. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Pp. viii + 195. $26.95 paperback. ISBN: 9781487594695. The Singer’s Needle: An Undisciplined History of Panamá . By Ezer Vierba. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. vii + 323. $30.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780226342450.