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Introduction to Panama

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
ISBN 13 : 3399102062
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Panama written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Panama is a country situated in Central America that is mainly known for its stunning beaches, enormous rainforests, and thriving financial sector. Its convenient location between North and South America has been an advantage in international trade and investment. Panama has a diverse population, a rich culture, and a fascinating history, having been under the control of Spain until gaining independence in 1903. The Panama Canal, one of the most significant engineering feats in history, is a testament to the country's importance in global trade, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Panama is one of the most rapidly developing nations in Central America, with a growing services sector, particularly in accounting, banking, and tourism. Tourists flock to Panama for its beautiful beach resorts, luxury hotels, and breath-taking natural scenery. It is quickly becoming one of the most popular travel destinations in Central America, bringing in millions of visitors a year. While many come for the tropical weather and beautiful beaches, others come for the impressive Panama Canal and other exciting historical landmarks. In addition, the country's cuisine, art, and music showcase Panama's unique cultural identity. From the vibrant nightlife in Panama City to the rural countryside full of wildlife, Panama has plenty to offer for all types of visitors.

Modern Panama

Author : Michael L. Conniff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110847666X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Modern Panama written by Michael L. Conniff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive overview of the political and economic developments in Panama from 1980 to the present day.

The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal

Author : Marixa Lasso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0674984447
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal written by Marixa Lasso and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold history of the Panama Canal--from Panama's point of view. Sleuth and scholar, Marixa Lasso has uncovered a long-overlooked story: to build their Canal, Americans displaced 40,000 Panamanians and erased entire cities, only to convince the world they had brought modernity to the tropics.--

The Big Ditch

Author : Noel Maurer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140083628X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Big Ditch written by Noel Maurer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 439 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.

Panama's Canal

Author : Mark Falcoff
Publisher : A E I Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Panama's Canal written by Mark Falcoff and published by A E I Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on Panama mismanagement of the U.S. properties it received and its cavalier disregard of environmental considerations crucial to the efficient operation of the canal.

Introduction to Panama

Author : Gilad James, PhD
Publisher : Gilad James Mystery School
ISBN 13 : 7211782617
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (117 download)

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The Rio Chagres, Panama

Author : Russell S. Harmon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402032981
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book The Rio Chagres, Panama written by Russell S. Harmon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-06-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines one of the most important and complex of the world's tropical rainforest regions: the greater Panama Canal Watershed. The Rio Chagres is the primary water source for operating the Canal, and supplies potable water for municipal use and electricity generation, but science has left this important national resource largely unstudied. The text promotes understanding of the physical and ecological components of an isolated and largely pristine tropical rainforest.

A History of Panama and Its Development

Author : Farnham Bishop
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530058181
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book A History of Panama and Its Development written by Farnham Bishop and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographically, Panama is the connecting link between South and Central America. This book originally published under the title "Panama: past and present"; tells the history of Panama and its development. "A hundred thousand years ago, when the Gulf of Mexico extended up the Mississippi Valley to the mouth of the Ohio, and the ice-sheet covered New York, there was no need of digging a Panama Canal, for there was no Isthmus of Panama. Instead, a broad strait separated South and Central America, and connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. This was the strait that the early European navigators were to hunt for in vain, for long before their time it had been filled up, mainly by the lava and ashes poured into it by the volcanoes on its banks...."

Panama

Author : Eric Zencey
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780425156025
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Panama written by Eric Zencey and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1997 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bestselling literary sensation and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, this novel is now making its debut in paperback. The year is 1892. A woman vanishes. A corpse is found. Gunshots echo in the streets of Paris. Blood flows to the Panama Canal.

The Panama Railroad

Author : Peter Pyne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253052092
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Panama Railroad written by Peter Pyne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1848, a group of ambitious American entrepreneurs decided to embark upon a remarkable engineering feat—they would build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The creation of the Panama Railroad ranks as one the boldest capitalist ventures in the 19th century, and would require battling climate, disease, and geography before it was completed. On a human level, it would transform the destiny of thousands of lives in America, Panama, the West Indies, and Asia, as well as in Ireland. The Panama Railroad provides the first comprehensive account of the railroad's construction, going well beyond the known stories of the titans of industry involved with its construction, such as William Aspinwall, George Law, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. It seeks to correct false claims and address numerous gaps in past histories, and in particular showcases the stories of the ordinary Irish workers willing to travel halfway around the globe to pursue an uncertain future and a perilous undertaking in the hopes of escaping the devastating aftermath of the Great Famine of 1845–49.

The History of Panama

Author : Robert C. Harding
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Panama written by Robert C. Harding and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles significant events in the political, cultural, philosophical, and religious history of Panama, and includes a time line, biographical sketches, and a glossary.

The Panama Canal

Author : José Carlos Rodrigues
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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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:

African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama

Author : Robert C. Schwaller
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806176768
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama written by Robert C. Schwaller and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1520s through the 1580s, thousands of African slaves fled captivity in Spanish Panama and formed their own communities in the interior of the isthmus. African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama, a primary source reader, edited by Robert C. Schwaller, documents this marronage in the context of five decades of African resistance to slavery. The self-sufficiency of the Maroons, along with their periodic raids against Spanish settlements, sparked armed conflict as Spaniards sought to conquer the maroon communities and kill or re-enslave their populations. After decades of struggle, Maroons succeeded in negotiating a peace with Spanish authorities and establishing the first two free Black towns in the Americas. The little-known details of this dramatic history emerge in these pages, traced through official Spanish accounts, reports, and royal edicts, as well as excerpts from several English sources that recorded alliances between Maroons and English privateers in the region. The contrasting Spanish and English accounts reveal Maroons' attempts to turn European antagonism to their advantage; and, significantly, several accounts feature direct testimony from Maroons. Most importantly, this reader includes translations of the first peace agreements made between a European empire and African Maroons, and the founding documents of the free-Black communities of Santiago del Príncipe and Santa Cruz la Real—the culmination of the first successful African resistance movement in the Americas. Schwaller has translated all the documents into English and presents each with a short introduction, thorough annotations, and full historical, cultural, and geographical context, making this volume accessible to undergraduate students while remaining a unique document collection for scholars.

Silver People

Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544109414
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Silver People written by Margarita Engle and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Panama Canal turns one hundred, Newbery Honor winner Margarita Engle tells the story of its creation in this powerful new YA historical novel in verse.

The Panama Canal

Author : Elbert M. Hoppenstedt
Publisher : Seedling Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780845499269
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Panama Canal written by Elbert M. Hoppenstedt and published by Seedling Publications. This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elementary introduction to how the Panama Canal works. Interesting photo illustrations and diagrams.

Panama at the Crossroads

Author : Andrew Zimbalist
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520325184
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Panama at the Crossroads written by Andrew Zimbalist and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1989, the United States invaded Panama, deposed its government, and established another in its place. While this act of violent intervention brought Panama to public attention, the justifications for it obscured the underlying instabilities that have plagued the country throughout its history. Although a stated purpose of the invasion was to remove one man, Manuel Noriega, from power, Panama at the Crossroads demonstrates that the crisis sweeping Panama in the late 1980s was not caused by one man, but in fact derived from the history of U.S. domination and the nature of Panamanian society itself. Panama is located at a crucial geographic crossroads, a fact that has greatly influenced the country's history since the sixteenth century. Labor scarcity and inhospitable terrain, joined with its location, contributed to the mercantile orientation of Panama's economy. Accordingly, the country's politics and economics have been consistently dominated by foreign trading interests, first from Spain, then Colombia and the United States. Now in the 1990s, Panama stands at a historical and economic crossroads, and according to Zimbalist and Weeks its traditional entrepôt institutions are no longer able to promote and sustain growth. Before building the basis for long-term economic expansion, Panama must first undo the devastating economic and political damage engendered by nearly three years of U.S. economic sanctions and the U.S. invasion. In this timely book, Zimbalist and Weeks document the origins and characteristics of this crossroads. Their analysis points the way to a more encompassing and equitable strategy for Panama's economic development. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch

Author : Adam Clymer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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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.