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Book Synopsis Panama Canal Zone - Then and Now by : Jaime Massot
Download or read book Panama Canal Zone - Then and Now written by Jaime Massot and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-10 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication covers 150 historical photos (Then), in black and white, from 1904 to 1941 and include their original titles. The images recall the lifestyle of some villages and sites on the Pacific side of the Canal Zone such as Albrook, Ancon, Balboa, Balboa Heights, Clayton, Corozal, Diablo, Fort Amador, Gamboa, La Boca, Madden, Miraflores, Paraiso, Pedro Miguel and Summit. All current (Now) color photographs were taken this year (2016).
Download or read book Erased written by Marixa Lasso and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Panama Canal's untold history—from the Panamanian point of view. Sleuth and scholar Marixa Lasso recounts how the canal’s American builders displaced 40,000 residents and erased entire towns in the guise of bringing modernity to the tropics. The Panama Canal set a new course for the modern development of Central America. Cutting a convenient path from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, it hastened the currents of trade and migration that were already reshaping the Western hemisphere. Yet the waterway was built at considerable cost to a way of life that had characterized the region for centuries. In Erased, Marixa Lasso recovers the history of the Panamanian cities and towns that once formed the backbone of the republic. Drawing on vast and previously untapped archival sources and personal recollections, Lasso describes the canal’s displacement of peasants, homeowners, and shop owners, and chronicles the destruction of a centuries-old commercial culture and environment. On completion of the canal, the United States engineered a tropical idyll to replace the lost cities and towns—a space miraculously cleansed of poverty, unemployment, and people—which served as a convenient backdrop to the manicured suburbs built exclusively for Americans. By restoring the sounds, sights, and stories of a world wiped clean by U.S. commerce and political ambition, Lasso compellingly pushes back against a triumphalist narrative that erases the contribution of Latin America to its own history.
Book Synopsis Borderland on the Isthmus by : Michael E. Donoghue
Download or read book Borderland on the Isthmus written by Michael E. Donoghue and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The construction, maintenance, and defense of the Panama Canal brought Panamanians, U.S. soldiers and civilians, West Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans into close, even intimate, contact. In this lively and provocative social history, Michael E. Donoghue positions the Panama Canal Zone as an imperial borderland where U.S. power, culture, and ideology were projected and contested. Highlighting race as both an overt and underlying force that shaped life in and beyond the Zone, Donoghue details how local traditions and colonial policies interacted and frequently clashed. Panamanians responded to U.S. occupation with proclamations, protests, and everyday forms of resistance and acquiescence. Although U.S. "Zonians" and military personnel stigmatized Panamanians as racial inferiors, they also sought them out for service labor, contraband, sexual pleasure, and marriage. The Canal Zone, he concludes, reproduced classic colonial hierarchies of race, national identity, and gender, establishing a model for other U.S. bases and imperial outposts around the globe.
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 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 Red, White, and Blue Paradise by : Herbert Knapp
Download or read book Red, White, and Blue Paradise written by Herbert Knapp and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1984 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :310 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Operations of the Panama Canal Company and Canal Zone Government by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Download or read book Operations of the Panama Canal Company and Canal Zone Government written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Flora of the Panama Canal Zone by : Paul Carpenter Standley
Download or read book Flora of the Panama Canal Zone written by Paul Carpenter Standley and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Panama Canal Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :206 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Changes in the Administration of the Panama Canal Company by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Panama Canal
Download or read book Changes in the Administration of the Panama Canal Company written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Panama Canal and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Panama Canal, 1971, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs ... 92-1, on H. Res. 74, 154, 156, and Other Resolutions, Sept. 22 and 23, 1971 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Download or read book Panama Canal, 1971, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs ... 92-1, on H. Res. 74, 154, 156, and Other Resolutions, Sept. 22 and 23, 1971 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Operation of the Panama Canal Company and Canal Zone Government ... by : United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Download or read book Operation of the Panama Canal Company and Canal Zone Government ... written by United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs by : Ulrich Keller
Download or read book The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs written by Ulrich Keller and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tale of an unprecedented technological advance unfolds in a compelling narrative of risks, hardships, disasters, and triumph. More than 160 historic photographs depict exotic settings, workers' housing, dredging operations, much more.
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :160 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Hearings Before the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries on H. R. 31689, to Provide American Registers for Certain Steamers by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Download or read book Hearings Before the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries on H. R. 31689, to Provide American Registers for Certain Steamers written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Panama Canal Treaties by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Download or read book Panama Canal Treaties written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations, 1958, Hearings Before ... 85-1, on H.R. 6700 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Approrpriations Committee
Download or read book Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations, 1958, Hearings Before ... 85-1, on H.R. 6700 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Approrpriations Committee and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: