| | Preface | [5] |
| | Date History of the Canal | [11] |
| I. | The Secret of the Strait | [15] |
| II. | Canal Projects | [23] |
| III. | The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and the Suez Canal | [42] |
| IV. | The French Failure | [52] |
| V. | The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty | [64] |
| VI. | The United States and Colombia | [77] |
| VII. | A Miniature Revolution | [88] |
| VIII. | The Battle of the Levels | [112] |
| IX. | Man and the Gnat | [129] |
| X. | Life at the Isthmus | [153] |
| XI. | The Problem of Construction | [172] |
| XII. | The Culebra Cut | [186] |
| XIII. | The Locks | [195] |
| XIV. | The Completed Canal | [207] |
| XV. | Panama and the Isthmus | [226] |
| XVI. | The New Ocean Highways | [242] |
| XVII. | The Canal and the Americas | [265] |
| XVIII. | The Canal and the British Empire | [284] |
| XIX. | The New Pacific | [316] |
| Appendix I.—Hay-Pauncefote Treaty | [323] |
| Appendix II.—Panama Declaration of Independence | [327] |
| Appendix III.—Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty Clauses 1-9 and 23 | [332] |
| Appendix IV.—Proclamation as to Canal Toll Rates | [343] |