Five Years of the Panama Canal: An Evaluation
Author : Robert Marshall Brown
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
ISBN :
Author : Robert Marshall Brown
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
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Author : Wolfred Nelson
Publisher :
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Panama
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Author : Wolfred Nelson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,94 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781019462096
This book provides an eyewitness account of the construction of the Panama Canal, one of the greatest engineering feats of the modern era. It details the challenges faced by the workers, from the harsh tropical climate to the deadly diseases that plagued the region. A fascinating and insightful look at the human side of a true marvel of engineering. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Chicago Rook (James H. ) Company
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781290879873
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Ulrich Keller
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,22 MB
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0486319253
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.
Author : Marixa Lasso
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0674984447
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.
Author : Isaiah Bowman
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 23,92 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic journals
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Author : Matthew Parker
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0307472531
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 : Janet B. Pascal
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,2 MB
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0698171853
Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the world’s most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!
Author : Gloria Emerson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0393349330
The National Book Award–winning classic on the Vietnam War, reissued for the war’s fiftieth anniversary. Based on interviews with both Americans and Vietnamese, Winners and Losers is Gloria Emerson’s powerful portrait of the Vietnam War. From soldiers on the battlefield to protesters on the home front, Emerson chronicles the war’s impact on ordinary lives with characteristic insight and brilliance. Today, as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, much of the physical and emotional damage from that conflict—the empty political rhetoric, the mounting casualties, and the troubled homecomings of shell-shocked soldiers—is once again part of the American experience. Winners and Losers remains a potent reminder of the danger of blindly applied American power, and its poignant truths are the legacy of a remarkable journalist.