The Independence of the Isthmus of Panama
Author : Ramón M. Valdés
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 36,23 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Panama
ISBN :
Author : Ramón M. Valdés
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 36,23 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Panama
ISBN :
Author : Charles Spalding Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,61 MB
Release : 1921
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Author : Marixa Lasso
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,50 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 : Abelardo Aldana
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Colombia
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Author : Ovidio Diaz-Espino
Publisher : Primedia E-launch LLC
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 13,23 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0990552128
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.
Author : Matthew Parker
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 29,58 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 : Berthold Seemann
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781334244728
Excerpt from History of the Isthmus of Panama On recovering, Drake decided on crossing the Isthmus; but having lost many men by sickness, among them his brothers Joseph and John, he removed the remaining force to his own ship and pinnace. The Swan was sunk. His object was to intercept on the Isthmus, a train of mules, laden with the King's treasure. 0n meeting it he attacked and chased the party in charge, as far as Cruces, giving strict orders to his company not to hurt women or unarmed men. In their wanderings they came to a high tree, and climbing it viewed with transports of joy the great Pacific, an Ocean as yet entirely closed to English enterprise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Michael L. Conniff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 110847666X
Provides a comprehensive overview of the political and economic developments in Panama from 1980 to the present day.
Author : Arnold Michael Freedman
Publisher :
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Panama
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Author : John Berry Biesanz
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Panama
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