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Author : James Zetek
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book Influence of the Panama Canal on the Development of America from the Scientific Point of View written by James Zetek and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Noel Maurer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691248079
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( 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 : Vaughan Cornish
Publisher : Good Press
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Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Panama Canal and Its Makers written by Vaughan Cornish and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaughan Cornish's 'The Panama Canal and its Makers' offers a fascinating look at the history of the iconic canal. While the language is somewhat outdated, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the construction of the canal, including its planning, excavation, and the people who made it all possible. With detailed descriptions of the methods used to excavate the culebra cut and the health conditions faced by workers on the isthmus, this book is a testament to the incredible determination and resilience of the people involved in this monumental project.
Author : Marixa Lasso
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067423975X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( 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 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central America—but at considerable cost to Panamanians. 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.
Author : John Saxon Mills
Publisher : London : Thomas Nelson and Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Panama Canal written by John Saxon Mills and published by London : Thomas Nelson and Sons. This book was released on 1913 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julie Greene
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101011556
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( 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.
Author : Pan American Union
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Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the Pan American Union written by Pan American Union and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederic J. Haskin
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Panama Canal written by Frederic J. Haskin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The construction of the Panama Channel was a laborious and difficult undertaking from many perspectives. This book provides the chronicles of the great construction, paying special attention to the technical, political, social, and economic specifics. According to the author, the book aimed to evoke the pride of the American nation in one of the greatest construction works in the history of mankind.
Author : José Carlos Rodrigues
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Panama Canal written by José Carlos Rodrigues and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Gaines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780766012165
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Panama Canal in American History written by Ann Gaines and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of the Panama Canal from the early exploration of Central and South America by the Spanish, through French efforts to build a canal in Panama, to the successful United States completion of the canal in the early twentieth century. Highlighting the people involved in the planning and building of the canal, it examines the many obstacles that had to be overcome, geography, politics, disease, before the canal could be finished. It also discusses the tensions that have existed among local Panamanians protesting the Unites States presence in the Canal Zone, as well as the possible ramifications of the transfer of the canal back to Panama.
