The Maritime Landscape Of The Isthmus Of Panama

Author : James P. Delgado
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 081305253X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panamá written by James P. Delgado and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 11,000 year human history, the Isthmus of Panamá has been dominated by its relationship to the sea and the rivers that feed it. A unique marine environment, the land bridge shaped its inhabitants’ activities, and those inhabitants shaped the Isthmus—from harvesting resources to physically transforming the land to link two oceans. This seminal work explores this intersection between people and the environment, mining the archaeological and ethnological record created during the formation and development of Panamá's maritime cultural landscape. Assessing sites both submerged and on land, the authors explore the maritime history of the isthmus through its many stages: from its prehistoric period through Spanish colonialism to the building of the canal and its function as a route for modern-day maritime traffic. Combining archaeology, history, geography, and economic history, this volume situates Panamá's canal and isthmus in the global economy and world maritime culture, while providing a more complex understanding of human adaptation and the persistence of culture.

Author : Veronika Hyden-Hanscho
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811984174
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formative Modernities in the Early Modern Atlantic and Beyond written by Veronika Hyden-Hanscho and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new perspective on the concept of modernity. Since its invention as a contrast to Antiquity or the Middle Ages, modernity has been tied to ideas of superiority, progress, and efficiency. As a counterpart to the Marxist “history of class struggle”, “modernization theories” have transformed modernity into an almost teleological concept of historical development. These strong connotations obstruct a clear look at other forms of modernity. The contributions of the volume will show in a comparative perspective how modernity can also be understood and analyzed as multiple responses of societies and polities to organize themselves in facing ever more complex and integrated interactions at ever larger scales.

Author : Alexander Dunlop
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484841894
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes on the Isthmus of Panama written by Alexander Dunlop and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Notes on the Isthmus of Panama: With Remarks on Its Physical Geography and Its Prospects, in Connection With the Gold Regions, Gold Mining, and Washing; January 1852 A long-cherished wish to see the Pacific Ocean was gratified a few months ago; and during a visit to its shores, I made from time to time these notes respecting the Isthmus and town of Panama and its neighbourhood, the point on the great Ocean the near est Europe. Becoming interested by what I saw and heard there, I endeavoured to glean the best information obtainable on these topics whilst on the spot; the subject appearing to me to gain importance daily, from the vast increase Of intercourse across the Isthmus - the ensuing completion of the Panama Railway - the various schemes of colonisation throughout Central America, and the proposals for a ship canal from the one great Ocean to the other. The Atlantic coast of the Isthmus is about 20 days steaming from England; and if quicker steamers succeed the present, the duration of the voyage will be shortened in proportion to their speed. The old harbour of porto-bello is almost deserted, not withstanding its excellence and capacity, and the road from it is long and tedious and out of order, the whole way to Panama. A prejudice exists against the climate of (the Town, and the Chagres River has been found convenient for boating goods and passengers to within 25 miles of Panama; therefore for many years the Road stead of Chagres has been the point most in use, in Spite of nume rous disadvantages. The future Atlantic port will be Navy Bay, or Manzanilla Har bour, not so good a Haven as porto-bello, but on the whole, serviceable and accessible, and chosen as the Terminus of the Panama Railway. It is occasionally exposed to a heavy Norte, and there is no fresh water convenient, both serious drawbacks, but it is roomy, and in some places deep enough for large ships. 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 : Christine Keiner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820358630
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Cut written by Christine Keiner and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; SCIENCE / History; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History.

Author : Thomas Milner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
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Download or read book The Gallery of Geography written by Thomas Milner and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Milner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
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Download or read book The gallery of geography, a tour of the world. 6 divisions written by Thomas Milner and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
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Download or read book Panama, the Isthmus and the Canal written by Charles Harcourt Ainslie Forbes-Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. H. Forbes-Lindsay
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book Panama written by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fessenden Nott Otis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
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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 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Pettegrew
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472121855
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book The Isthmus of Corinth written by David Pettegrew and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The narrow neck of land that joins the Peloponnese with the Greek mainland was central to the fortunes of the city of Corinth and the history of Greece from the classical Greek period to the end of the ancient world. Corinth was perfectly situated for monitoring land traffic between Athens and Sparta and overland movements between eastern and western seas. David Pettegrew’s book offers a new history of the Isthmus of Corinth from the Romans’ initial presence in Greece during the Hellenistic era to the epic transformations of the Empire in late antiquity. A new interpretation of the extensive literary evidence outlines how the Isthmus became the most famous land bridge of the ancient world, central to maritime interests of Corinth, and a medium for Rome’s conquest, annexation, and administration in the Greek east. A fresh synthesis of archaeological evidence and the results of a recent intensive survey on the Isthmus describe the physical development of fortifications, settlements, harbors, roads, and sanctuaries in the region. The author includes chapters on the classical background of the concept isthmos, the sacking of Corinth and the defeat of the Achaean League, colonization in the Late Roman Republic, the Emperor Nero’s canal project and its failure, the growth of Roman settlement in the territory, and the end of athletic contests at Isthmia. The Isthmus of Corinth offers a powerful case study in the ways that shifting Mediterranean worlds transformed a culturally significant landscape over the course of a millennium.