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Book Synopsis How the United States Acquired the Right to Dig the Panama Canal by : Theodore Roosevelt
Download or read book How the United States Acquired the Right to Dig the Panama Canal written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Panama Canal and Our Relations with Colombia by :
Download or read book The Panama Canal and Our Relations with Colombia written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book "I Took the Isthmus" written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How the United States Acquired the Right to Build the Panama Canal by : Walter A. Moyer
Download or read book How the United States Acquired the Right to Build the Panama Canal written by Walter A. Moyer and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How Wall Street Created a Nation by : Ovidio Diaz-Espino
Download or read book How Wall Street Created a Nation written by Ovidio Diaz-Espino and published by Primedia E-launch LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Wall Street Created a Nation: J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal narrates the dramatic and gripping account of the beginnings of the Panama Canal led by a group of Wall Street speculators with the help of Teddy Roosevelt’s government. The result of four years of research, the book offers the real story of how the United States obtained the rights to build the Canal through financial speculation, fraud, and an international conspiracy that brought down a French republic and a Colombian government, created the Republic of Panama, rocked the invincible President Roosevelt with corruption scandals, and gave birth to U.S. imperialism in Latin America.
Book Synopsis How We Acquired the Right to Dig the Panama Canal by : Fairley Patterson James
Download or read book How We Acquired the Right to Dig the Panama Canal written by Fairley Patterson James and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Big Ditch written by Noel Maurer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive economic and political history of the Panama Canal On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu reveal a more complex story. Examining the Canal's influence on Panama, the United States, and the world, The Big Ditch deftly chronicles the economic and political history of the Canal, from Spain's earliest proposals in 1529 through the final handover of the Canal to Panama on December 31, 1999, to the present day. The authors show that the Canal produced great economic dividends for the first quarter-century following its opening, despite massive cost overruns and delays. Relying on geographical advantage and military might, the United States captured most of these benefits. By the 1970s, however, when the Carter administration negotiated the eventual turnover of the Canal back to Panama, the strategic and economic value of the Canal had disappeared. And yet, contrary to skeptics who believed it was impossible for a fledgling nation plagued by corruption to manage the Canal, when the Panamanians finally had control, they switched the Canal from a public utility to a for-profit corporation, ultimately running it better than their northern patrons. A remarkable tale, The Big Ditch offers vital lessons about the impact of large-scale infrastructure projects, American overseas interventions on institutional development, and the ability of governments to run companies effectively.
Book Synopsis Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch by : Adam Clymer
Download or read book Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch written by Adam Clymer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable and revealing tale, noted journalist Clymer shows how the decision to give up the Panama Canal stirred emotions already rubbed raw by the loss of the Vietnam War and shaped American politics for years.
Book Synopsis The Panama Canal by : Charles River Charles River Editors
Download or read book The Panama Canal written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the construction written by workers and their family members *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..." - Theodore Roosevelt Most people have heard of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but while not as many have heard of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, those who have are aware that the Panama Canal is considered one of them. In a world where few natural rivers carved out over eons of time have reached a length of more than 50 miles, the idea that a group of men could carve a canal of that length seemed impossible. In fact, many thought it could not be done. On the other hand, there was a tremendous motivation to try, because if a canal could be successfully cut across Central America to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, it would cut weeks off the time necessary to carry goods by sea from the well-established East Coast of the United States to the burgeoning West Coast. Moreover, traveling around the tip of South America was fraught with danger, and European explorers and settlers had proposed building a canal in Panama or Nicaragua several centuries before the Panama Canal was actually built. By the late 19th century, the French actually tried to build such a canal, only to fail after a great deal of resources were put into construction and after workers died of malaria and other illnesses. At the turn of the 20th century, not only was the need for a canal still there, but the right man was in the White House. Indeed, President Theodore Roosevelt, a celebrated outdoorsman, might have been the only president who could have foreseen and accomplished such an audacious feat, and even he considered it one of his crowning achievements. He wrote in his memoirs, "There are plenty of other things I started merely because the time had come that whoever was in power would have started them. But the Panama Canal would not have started if I had not taken hold of it, because if I had followed the traditional or conservative method I should have submitted an admirable state paper to Congress...the debate would be proceeding at this moment...and the beginning of work on the canal would be fifty years in the future. Fortunately [the opportunity] came at a period when I could act unhampered. Accordingly I took the Isthmus, started the canal and then left Congress not to debate the canal, but to debate me." Building the Panama Canal was a herculean task in every sense. Taking about 10 years to build, workers had to excavate millions of cubic yards of earth and fight off hordes of insects to make Roosevelt's vision a reality. Roosevelt also had to tie up the U.S. Navy in a revolt in Colombia to ensure Panama could become independent and thus ensure America had control of the canal. By 1914, ships were finally traversing through the Panama Canal, just as World War I was about to start, and a century later, the Panama Canal remains one of the world's most vital waterways. The Panama Canal looks at the origins and history of the important trade link between the Atlantic and Pacific. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Panama Canal like never before, in no time at all.
Book Synopsis The Panama Canal Conflict Between Great Britain and the United States of America by : Lassa Oppenheim
Download or read book The Panama Canal Conflict Between Great Britain and the United States of America written by Lassa Oppenheim and published by Cambridge, University Press. This book was released on 1913 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Panama Fever written by Matthew Parker and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever draws on contemporary accounts, bringing the experience of those who built the canal vividly to life. Politicians engaged in high-stakes diplomacy in order to influence its construction. Meanwhile, engineers and workers from around the world rushed to take advantage of high wages and the chance to be a part of history. Filled with remarkable characters, Panama Fever is an epic history that shows how a small, fiercely contested strip of land made the world a smaller place and launched the era of American global dominance.
Book Synopsis The Panama Canal by : José Carlos Rodrigues
Download or read book The Panama Canal written by José Carlos Rodrigues and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis I Took the Isthmus by : Francisco Escobar
Download or read book I Took the Isthmus written by Francisco Escobar and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from I Took the Isthmus: Ex-President Roosevelt's Confession, Colombia's Protest and Editorial Comment by American Newspapers on "How the United States Acquired the Right to Build the Panama Canal" States the right to construct the Panama Canal, was followed by the Panama revolution and the immediate recognition of the new republic by the 1united States which, by force of arms, prevented Colombia from suppressing the rebellion and main taining her sovereignty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis History of the Panama Canal by : Ira Elbert Bennett
Download or read book History of the Panama Canal written by Ira Elbert Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Canal Builders by : Julie Greene
Download or read book The Canal Builders written by Julie Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-02-05 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of view The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and ingenuity. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis has obscured a far more remarkable element of the historic enterprise: the tens of thousands of workingmen and workingwomen who traveled from all around the world to build it. Greene looks past the mythology surrounding the canal to expose the difficult working conditions and discriminatory policies involved in its construction. Drawing extensively on letters, memoirs, and government documents, the book chronicles both the struggles and the triumphs of the workers and their families. Prodigiously researched and vividly told, The Canal Builders explores the human dimensions of one of the world's greatest labor mobilizations, and reveals how it launched America's twentieth-century empire.
Book Synopsis History of the Panama Canal. by : Ira E. Bennett
Download or read book History of the Panama Canal. written by Ira E. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Panama Canal in American History by : Ann Gaines
Download or read book The Panama Canal in American History written by Ann Gaines and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of the Panama Canal from the early exploration of Central and South America by the Spanish, through French efforts to build a canal in Panama, to the successful United States completion of the canal in the early twentieth century. Highlighting the people involved in the planning and building of the canal, it examines the many obstacles that had to be overcome, geography, politics, disease, before the canal could be finished. It also discusses the tensions that have existed among local Panamanians protesting the Unites States presence in the Canal Zone, as well as the possible ramifications of the transfer of the canal back to Panama.