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Author : RALPH EMMETT AVERY
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book AMERICA'S TRIUMPH AT PANAMA written by RALPH EMMETT AVERY and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Juan David Morgan
Publisher : Two Harbors Press
ISBN 13 : 9781626529533
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (295 download)
Download or read book The Golden Horse written by Juan David Morgan and published by Two Harbors Press. This book was released on 2014-12-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Golden Horse by Juan David Morgan is a sweeping saga, painting a vivid, personal portrayal of the events that transpired as a result of the rivalry between New York shipping magnates, William Aspinwall and Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the enormous personal cost that was borne by the people involved in the construction of the Panama Railroad-- the first transcontinental train in the Americas-- built during the California Gold Rush. Thousands of people died during the construction, succumbing to tropical diseases and natural disasters. Despite the danger, the lust of gold fever and the challenge of conquering the wilderness drove the men through the perils of torturous journeys, cutthroat competition, ruthless outlaws, savage jungles, the ferocious extremes of the tropical frontier, and violent cultural clashes, but not without the thrill of romantic adventures, the wonder of human inventiveness, and rugged determination to succeed."--Amazon.com
Author : Warren Zimmermann
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374528934
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)
Download or read book First Great Triumph written by Warren Zimmermann and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses how the lives of Theodore Roosevelt, Alfed T. Mahan, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Hay, and Elihu Root intersected with the growth of the American imperialism that eventually made the United States a world power.
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Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book America written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Jesuit review of faith and culture," Nov. 13, 2017-
Author : Matthew Parker
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307472531
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
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.
Author : Malcolm McConnell
Publisher : Saint Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780312929008
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Just Cause written by Malcolm McConnell and published by Saint Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 1992-11-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look back at the Gulf War describes the actions of the Navy SEALS, Army Rangers, and F-117A Stealth fighter-bombers who participated in Bush's war in the Gulf. Reprint.
Author : Michael Adas
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674020078
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Dominance by Design written by Michael Adas and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before the United States became a major force in global affairs, Americans believed in their superiority over others due to their inventiveness, productivity, and economic and social well-being. U.S. expansionists assumed a mandate to civilize non-Western peoples by demanding submission to American technological prowess and design. As an integral part of America's national identity and sense of itself in the world, this civilizing mission provided the rationale to displace the Indians from much of our continent, to build an island empire in the Pacific and Caribbean, and to promote unilateral--at times military--interventionism throughout Asia. In our age of smart bombs and mobile warfare, technological aptitude remains preeminent in validating America's global mission. Michael Adas brilliantly pursues the history of this mission through America's foreign relations over nearly four centuries from North America to the Philippines, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. The belief that it is our right and destiny to remake foreign societies in our image has endured from the early decades of colonization to our current crusade to implant American-style democracy in the Muslim Middle East. Dominance by Design explores the critical ways in which technological superiority has undergirded the U.S.'s policies of unilateralism, preemption, and interventionism in foreign affairs and raised us from an impoverished frontier nation to a global power. Challenging the long-held assumptions and imperatives that sustain the civilizing mission, Adas gives us an essential guide to America's past and present role in the world as well as cautionary lessons for the future.
Author : Noel Maurer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691248079
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
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.
Author : Sofía Betancourt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793641390
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal written by Sofía Betancourt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ecowomanism at the Panamá Canal: Black Women, Labor, and Environmental Ethics, Sofia Betancourt constructs a transnational ecowomanist ethic that reclaims inherited environmental cultures across multiple sites of displacement. Betancourt argues that women in the African diaspora have a unique understanding of how a moral refusal to compromise their humanity provides the very understanding needed to survive what was once an inconceivable level of environmental devastation. This work is guided by the experiences of West Indian women, imported to Panamá by the United States from across the Caribbean, whose labor supported the building of the Panamá Canal—the so-called silver men and women who faced mud, mosquitoes, and malaria while building a literal pathway to the American empire.
Author : United States. Department of State
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Panama, Post Report written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julie Greene
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101011556
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
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.
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Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Panama, 1996 Post Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Bulletin written by Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marixa Lasso
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674984447
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
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.
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Total Pages : 2384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the American Medical Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 2384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pan American Union
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the Pan American Union written by Pan American Union and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
