Download or read book THE BUNAU VARILLA BROTHERS AND THE PANAMA CANAL written by GABRIEL J. LOIZILLON and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unravels the secrets of the Bunau-Varilla brothers' fortune, made in the construction of the French Canal in Panama in 1886-1889. It also asks why Philippe Bunau-Varilla is not recognised by Panamanians as the man who helped their republic to be born - without him, the Panama Canal would have been in Nicaragua.
Download or read book Philippe Bunau Varilla the Man Behind the Panama Canal written by G. A. Anguizola and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Great Adventure of Panama written by Philippe Bunau-Varilla and published by Dodo Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieut. -Colonel Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla (1859-1940) commonly referred to as simply Philippe Bunau-Varilla, was a French engineer and soldier. With the assistance of American lobbyist and lawyer William Nelson Cromwell, Bunau-Varilla greatly influenced the United States's decision concerning the construction site for the famed Panama Canal. He also worked closely with United States president Theodore Roosevelt in the latter's orchestration of the Panamanian Revolution, resulting in Panama's independence from Colombia. In 1862 he abandoned his career in public works at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees and travelled to Panama. He arrived at the isthmus in 1884, newly employed with Ferdinand de Lesseps's Panama Canal Company. He incessantly promoted the construction of the canal. He eventually persuaded the government to select Panama as the canal site, as opposed to the popular alternative - Nicaragua. As Panama's Ambassador to the United States, he entered into negotiations with the American Secretary of State John Hay, establishing the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty, which gave control of the Panama Canal to the U. S..
Download or read book Panama written by Philippe Bunau-Varilla and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Panama Canal and the Daughters of Danaus written by John Bigelow and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Panama Canal the lock Canal Type and the Straits of Panama Type written by Philippe Bunau-Varilla and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Articles on the Fortification of the Panama Canal written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America and the Canal Title written by Joseph C. Freehoff and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Panama Canal written by Richard Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building the Panama Canal written by Russell Roberts and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The building of the Panama Canal was one of the great engineering feats of the twentieth century. For hundreds of years, mankind had dreamed about cutting through the Isthmus of Panama to build a canal, but the jungle, insects, and the damp, humid conditions had always combined to defeat any and all attempts to construct the waterway. It took the discovery of the mosquito as a disease carrier, the tenacity of the workmen, and the single-minded stubbornness of Theodore Roosevelt to make the canal dream a reality. But if the canal made some men great, it also destroyed the lives of others. That was the sad fate of Count Ferdinand de Lesseps of France, a national hero who had done the impossible by building the Suez Canal, then failed in Panama. The fate of de Lesseps is as much the story of the Panama Canal as is the success of Roosevelt.
Download or read book The Panama Canal An Informal History of Its Concept Building and Present Status written by Donald Barr Chidsey and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Panama Canal: An Informal History of Its Concept, Building, and Present Status" relates the struggles, conflicts, obstacles, and achievement involved in the construction of the canal. Originally published in 1970, this ebook edition retains all of the photos, drawings, and illustrations of the original edition. A fascinating and detailed history of the Panama Canal!
Download or read book Building the Panama Canal written by Dale Anderson and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history of the building of the Panama Canal, project's construction, the people involved, and the impact on the history of the United States.
Download or read book The Panama Canal written by Lesley A. DuTemple and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the building of the Panama Canal, with emphasis on the difficulties of digging a canal where some engineers said it could not be done.
Download or read book White Shoe written by John Oller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating true story of how a group of visionary attorneys helped make American business synonymous with Big Business, and Wall Street the center of the financial world “Entertaining.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Fast-paced history.”—Library Journal • “Insightful and revealing."—Kirkus • “Captivating.”—BookPage The legal profession once operated on a smaller scale—folksy lawyers arguing for fairness and justice before a judge and jury. But by the year 1900, a new type of lawyer was born, one who understood business as well as the law. Working hand in glove with their clients, over the next two decades these New York City “white shoe” lawyers devised and implemented legal strategies that would drive the business world throughout the twentieth century. These lawyers were architects of the monopolistic new corporations so despised by many, and acted as guardians who helped the kings of industry fend off government overreaching. Yet they also quietly steered their robber baron clients away from a “public be damned” attitude toward more enlightened corporate behavior during a period of progressive, turbulent change in America. Author John Oller, himself a former Wall Street lawyer, gives us a richly-written glimpse of turn-of-the-century New York, from the grandeur of private mansions and elegant hotels and the city’s early skyscrapers and transportation systems, to the depths of its deplorable tenement housing conditions. Some of the biggest names of the era are featured, including business titans J. P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, lawyer-statesmen Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes, and presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. Among the colorful, high-powered lawyers vividly portrayed, White Shoe focuses on three: Paul Cravath, who guided his client George Westinghouse in his war against Thomas Edison and launched a new model of law firm management—the “Cravath system”; Frank Stetson, the “attorney general” for financier J. P. Morgan who fiercely defended against government lawsuits to break up Morgan’s business empires; and William Nelson Cromwell, the lawyer “who taught the robber barons how to rob,” and was best known for his instrumental role in creating the Panama Canal. In White Shoe, the story of this small but influential band of Wall Street lawyers who created Big Business is fully told for the first time.
Download or read book Donegan and the Panama Canal written by Thomas E. Morrissey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donegan and the Panama Canal is a fictionalized, first person story of why and how the United States built a canal in Panama in 1903. This story is a sequel to Mr. Morrisseys previous novel of the Spanish-American War, Donegan and the Splendid Little War. No one had previously written an historical novel of either of these events. The title character of Donegan and the Panama Canal is Patrick Donegan (1875-1958), the son of Irish immigrants to Philadelphia. Donegan belatedly wrote this memoir in 1953, but his grandson Thomas Morrissey did not publish it for another fifty years. Patrick Donegan had previously served on a Spanish merchant ship for two years before its captain stranded him in Santiago de Cuba in 1895. He became a war profiteer during the Cuban revolt against Spain, and wrote propaganda articles for the Cubans before William Randolph Hearst hired him to write for the New York Journal. Donegan and the Splendid Little War relates how Donegan wrote biased pro-Cuban stories for Hearst. He telegrammed a misleading account of the explosion of the American battleship Maine, which ultimately caused the United States to declare war on Spain. He accompanied Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders in their famous charge up San Juan Hill. He published an exclusive, eyewitness account of President McKinleys assassination, but Hearst fired him when Joseph Pulitzer discovered that Donegan had written a short poem that may have inspired McKinleys assassin. Donegan left the field of journalism and secretly became a lobbyist for the Panama Canal. Donegan and the Panama Canal tells the story how Hearst ordered Donegan, a year before he fired him in 1901, to sail around South America and disembark at the west coast of Nicaragua. Hearst, a Nicaraguan Canal partisan, did not know that Donegan had already promised Philippe Bunau-Varilla, a French engineer who had served in Ferdinand de Lesseps earlier ill-fated attempt to build a canal in Panama, that he would support a Panama Canal. Captain Michael Healy piloted the ship that carried Donegan during their long journey through the Strait of Magellan to Central America. Donegan traveled through Nicaragua, and interviewed her president and the American minister. He wrote many negative articles about Nicaragua, and warned the American public that many active and dangerous volcanoes flourished in Nicaragua that could easily destroy any canal built there. Hearst appointed Donegan to cover the Washington political scene when he returned to New York. Donegan accompanied Philippe Bunau-Varilla when this French lobbyist promoted the Panama Canal in many speeches throughout the United States. Bunau-Varilla convinced Senator Mark Hanna, President William McKinleys eminence grise, that the Panama site was preferable to Nicaragua. McKinley remained non-committal about where to build the canal, but Senator John Tyler Morgan of Alabama, the chief Nicaragua advocate, viciously attacked Philippe and Donegans Panama site. After Hearst fired him after President McKinleys assassination, Donegan sailed to France where he met William Nelson Cromwell, the legal representative of the Panama Railroad and the New Panama Canal Company. Donegan agreed to work with Cromwell on the canal question although he personally despised him. Donegan conferred with Bunau-Varilla in France, but they quickly returned to America when they heard that Congress would soon vote on whether the canal should be built in Panama or Nicaragua. All seemed lost when the House of Representatives overwhelmingly supported Nicaragua. Bunau-Varilla influenced the French Canal Company to lower the price for its canal concession, and Donegan influenced President Roosevelt, who previously favored Nicaragua, to support the Panama site. Congress had to make the final decision about the canal site. Senator Morgans Committee on Interoceanic Canals supported the Nicaragua Canal. Morgan and other senators argued that no can
Download or read book Panama Canal written by Orlando Martínez and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the historical background of the Panama Canal including its creation, engineering and construction, and discusses the surrounding issues of financial scandal, political subterfuge, imperialism and entrepreneurial daring.
Download or read book The Path Between the Seas written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-10-27 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough. From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. Applying his remarkable gift for writing lucid, lively exposition, McCullough weaves the many strands of the momentous event into a comprehensive and captivating tale. Winner of the National Book Award for history, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the Cornelius Ryan Award (for the best book of the year on international affairs), The Path Between the Seas is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, the history of technology, international intrigue, and human drama.
