Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
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.