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Panama Fever

Author : Matthew Parker
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307472531
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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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.

Panama Fever

Author : Matthew Parker
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400095182
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Panama Fever written by Matthew Parker and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-03-17 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.

Panama Fever

Author : Matthew Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Panama Fever written by Matthew Parker and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human cost was immense: in appalling working conditions and amid epidemics of fever, tens of thousands perished fighting the jungle, swamps and mountains of Panama, a scale of attrition comparable to many great battles. This book traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Panama Fever

Author : Matthew Parker
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Panama Fever written by Matthew Parker and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of exploration, conquest, money, politics, and medicine, "Panama Fever" charts the challenges that marked the long, labyrinthine road to the building of one of the greatest engineering feats in human history.

The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs

Author : Ulrich Keller
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486319253
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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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.

Panama Fever

Author : W. B. Garvey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982229408
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Panama Fever written by W. B. Garvey and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Big Ditch

Author : Noel Maurer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691248079
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 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 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.

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.

Clara's Way

Author : Roberta R Carr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578591520
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Clara's Way written by Roberta R Carr and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1904. Nurse Clara Tyler happily spends her days tending patients in rural Ohio. Her brother, who is working in Panama on the great canal, informs the family he must return home due to illness. Too sick to travel alone, he begs Clara to come and get him. Anxious about going but determined to save her brother, Clara makes her way to the Canal Zone. She is quickly drawn into a web of heartbreak, controversy, and friendship that keeps her there. When her father demands she return, Clara must decide where she belongs in this gripping tale about love and loss, courage, and the unexpected paths that shape our lives.

Isthmus of Panama

Author : Fessenden Nott Otis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isthmus of Panama written by Fessenden Nott Otis and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Panama Railroad with a guide for travelers and businessmen about Central and South America containing timetables, shipping rates, commercial activity, and information about international connections.

Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army

Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army written by National Library of Medicine (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Art of Being Kuna

Author : Mari Lyn Salvador
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Being Kuna written by Mari Lyn Salvador and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable arts and culture of the Kuna of Panama are accessible in this comprehensive, illustrated volume. From the familiar reverse appliqued molas to music, dance, and verbal arts, the Kuna live their values and bind their people together. This focus and strength has helped them to resist outside forces and maintain their culture and self-determination in the face of peoples and governments far more powerful.

The Fever

Author : Sonia Shah
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429981172
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Fever written by Sonia Shah and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-06-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, malaria has emerged as a cause célèbre for voguish philanthropists. Bill Gates, Bono, and Laura Bush are only a few of the personalities who have lent their names—and opened their pocketbooks—in hopes of curing the disease. Still, in a time when every emergent disease inspires waves of panic, why aren't we doing more to eradicate one of our oldest foes? And how does a parasitic disease that we've known how to prevent for more than a century still infect 500 million people every year, killing nearly 1 million of them? In The Fever, the journalist Sonia Shah sets out to answer these questions, delivering a timely, inquisitive chronicle of the illness and its influence on human lives. Through the centuries, she finds, we've invested our hopes in a panoply of drugs and technologies, and invariably those hopes have been dashed. From the settling of the New World to the construction of the Panama Canal, through wars and the advances of the Industrial Revolution, Shah tracks malaria's jagged ascent and the tragedies in its wake, revealing a parasite every bit as persistent as the insects that carry it. With distinguished prose and original reporting from Panama, Malawi, Cameroon, India, and elsewhere, The Fever captures the curiously fascinating, devastating history of this long-standing thorn in the side of humanity.

A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine

Author : Austin Flint
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine written by Austin Flint and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Culture, Capital and Representation

Author : R. Balfour
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230291198
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Culture, Capital and Representation written by R. Balfour and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions ranging over three centuries, Culture, Capital and Representation explores how literature, cultural studies and the visual arts represent, interact with, and produce ideas about capital, whether in its early phases (the growth of stock markets) or in its late phase (global speculative capital).

The Panama Canal

Author : Jon T. Hoffman
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Panama Canal written by Jon T. Hoffman and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pamphlet describes the critical role of Army officers who defied the odds and saw this immense project through to completion. They included Col. William C. Gorgas, who supervised the medical effort that saved countless lives and made it possible for the labor force to do its job; Col. George W. Goethals, who oversaw the final design of the canal and its construction and, equally important, motivated his workers to complete the herculean task ahead of schedule; and many other officers who headed up the project's subordinate construction commands and rebuilt the Panama railroad, a key component of the venture. In just seven years, these soldiers, thousands of fellow Americans, and tens of thousands of workers from around the world turned the dream of an isthmian canal into reality. Their success immediately ranked among the greatest peacetime feats of the Army and the nation, and it remains so to this day.

Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine

Author : Bret Harte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine written by Bret Harte and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: