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Supplemental Bibliographical Essay for the ThirdEdition Since the second edition of this book, the earlier flood of books and articles on Panama and the United States has subsided to a trickle, perhaps because the 1999 turnover of the canal was a muted if not nonevent. Still, some important historical works have been published and should be consulted for the entire period covered by this book, 1821 to 2011.1 have not, however, cited these new works in chapters i through 10,at the request of the press. Panamanians themselves are now responsible for much more research on their history and politics, as evidenced in the magisterial work edited by Alfredo Castillero Calvo, La historia general de Panama (Panama, 2004). In five dense volumes Castillero and his colleagues cover from prehistory to the present in exquisite detail and documentation. Amuch more concise introduction is available in RobertA. Harding's TheHistory of Panama (Westport, Conn., 2006). Other Panamanian historians have advanced our knowledge of their country. Carlos Guevara Mann's Political Careers, Corruption, and Impunity: Panama's Assembly , 1984-2009 (Notre Dame, 2011) covers the intimate life of the legislature in the period of transition toward democracy and down to the present, a discouraging story at best. Omar Jaen Suarez recounts the negotiations that led to the 1977 treaties from the point of view of an insider in Las negodadones de los tratados Torrijos-Carter: 1970-1979 (Panama,2005). Some non-Panamanian authors have continued to study and publish in the field, especially regarding Panama's relations with the United States. AimsMcGuinness 's Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush (Ithaca, 2008) explores the impact of the Panama Railroad in the 18503, using the Watermelon War as a microcosm of broader socioeconomic turmoil. Two new books on the canal-construction era provide lively narratives and deep understanding of the lives of everyday people involved: Julie Greene's The Canal Builders: Making Americas Empire at the Panama Canal (New York, 2009) and Matthew Parker's Panama fever (New York, 2007). For the twentieth century, readers should consult the new study of Panama's first caudillo, Belisario Porras, by Peter A. Szok, "La ultima gaviota": Liberalism 235 236 Supplemental Bibliographical Essay, jrd ed. and Nostalgia in Early Twentieth-Century Panama (Westport, Connv 2001). Orlando Perez surveys a good part of the last century and brings the story up to date in Political Culture in Panama: Democracy after Invasion (New York, 2011). Peter Sanchez contributes to a familiar genre in Panama-U.S. relations, the retrospective critique of U.S. policy, in Panama Lost? U.S.Hegemony, Democracy, and the Canal (Gainesville, 2007). Also in this vein is Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu's The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal (Princeton, N.J., 2011). Michael LaRosaand German R. Mejia compiled an engaging anthology of writings from the period up to the canal era, The United States Discovers Panama: the Writings of Soldiers, Scholars, Scientists,and Scoundrels, 1850-1905 (Lanham,Md.,2004). An authoritative account of Operation Just Cause is LawrenceA. Yates'sThe U.S. Military Intervention in Panama: Origins, Planning, and Crisis Management, June 1987'-December 1989 (Washington, D.C., 2008).Corinne Caumartin recounts the process by which Panama divested itself of an army, in "'Depoliticization' in the Reform of the Panamanian Security Apparatus/' Journal of Latin American Studies 39, no. i (2007): 107-32. And Vernin D. Johnsen compiled writings about the unperfected 2007 trade promotion treaty in U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement (New York, 2011). Finally, Gene E. Bigler chronicles the success of canal administration and the widening project in "The Panama CanalExpansion: How the New System of NationalControl and Corporate Management Works," a paper presented at the November 2009 MALASconference, Dallas, Tex. Those wishing to keep up with current affairs in Panama now have two online sources to supplement the mainline newspapers: ThePanama News (http:/ / www.thepanamanews.com) and Marco Gandasegui's blog, http://marcoa gandaseguin.blogspot.com. Two recent documentary specials focus on the Panama Canal and on an aborted Japanese submarine attack in World War II: American Experience, "The Panama Canal/' WGBH, 2010, and Secrets of the Dead, "Japanese SuperSub," Thirteen, 2010. ...

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