Erased: the untold story of the Panama Canal

The port and the city: a Western Civilization story

The lost towns of the Canal Zone

Regulating the Panama Canal towns

No slums in the Canal Zone: ICC authorities reach the decision to depopulate

Depopulating the Canal Zone: the flooded towns

Depopulating the Canal Zone: the towns not flooded

A radically new geography

Epilogue: Ruins and memories of a lost modernity.

Introduction

The port and the city

The Canal Zone in 1904

A new regime for old zone towns

A zone without Panamanians

After the floods

Lost towns

The zone's new geography

Epilogue.