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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.

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 : 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 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.

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.--

How Wall Street Created a Nation

Author : Ovidio Diaz-Espino
Publisher : Primedia E-launch LLC
ISBN 13 : 0990552128
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)

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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.

The Canal Builders

Author : Julie Greene
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101011556
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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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.

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.

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:

Emperors in the Jungle

Author : John Lindsay-Poland
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822330981
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Emperors in the Jungle written by John Lindsay-Poland and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFocuses on environmental, policy, and human rights dimensions of the activities of the U.S. military in Panama, analyzing the guiding mythologies and racial stereotypes behind the US's colonialism in the region./div

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.

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.

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: