Download or read book The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs written by Ulrich Keller and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Panama Canal Treaties written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Panama Canal Treaties Congressional witnesses written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Panama Canal written by Charles River Charles River Editors and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the construction written by workers and their family members *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..." - Theodore Roosevelt Most people have heard of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but while not as many have heard of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, those who have are aware that the Panama Canal is considered one of them. In a world where few natural rivers carved out over eons of time have reached a length of more than 50 miles, the idea that a group of men could carve a canal of that length seemed impossible. In fact, many thought it could not be done. On the other hand, there was a tremendous motivation to try, because if a canal could be successfully cut across Central America to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, it would cut weeks off the time necessary to carry goods by sea from the well-established East Coast of the United States to the burgeoning West Coast. Moreover, traveling around the tip of South America was fraught with danger, and European explorers and settlers had proposed building a canal in Panama or Nicaragua several centuries before the Panama Canal was actually built. By the late 19th century, the French actually tried to build such a canal, only to fail after a great deal of resources were put into construction and after workers died of malaria and other illnesses. At the turn of the 20th century, not only was the need for a canal still there, but the right man was in the White House. Indeed, President Theodore Roosevelt, a celebrated outdoorsman, might have been the only president who could have foreseen and accomplished such an audacious feat, and even he considered it one of his crowning achievements. He wrote in his memoirs, "There are plenty of other things I started merely because the time had come that whoever was in power would have started them. But the Panama Canal would not have started if I had not taken hold of it, because if I had followed the traditional or conservative method I should have submitted an admirable state paper to Congress...the debate would be proceeding at this moment...and the beginning of work on the canal would be fifty years in the future. Fortunately [the opportunity] came at a period when I could act unhampered. Accordingly I took the Isthmus, started the canal and then left Congress not to debate the canal, but to debate me." Building the Panama Canal was a herculean task in every sense. Taking about 10 years to build, workers had to excavate millions of cubic yards of earth and fight off hordes of insects to make Roosevelt's vision a reality. Roosevelt also had to tie up the U.S. Navy in a revolt in Colombia to ensure Panama could become independent and thus ensure America had control of the canal. By 1914, ships were finally traversing through the Panama Canal, just as World War I was about to start, and a century later, the Panama Canal remains one of the world's most vital waterways. The Panama Canal looks at the origins and history of the important trade link between the Atlantic and Pacific. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Panama Canal like never before, in no time at all.

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Download or read book Investigation of Panama Canal Matters written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interoceanic Canals and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Privacy Act Issuances Compilation written by United States. Office of the Federal Register and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains systems of records maintained on individuals by Federal agencies which were published in the Federal Register and rules of each agency concerning the procedures the agency will use in helping individuals who request information about their records.

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Download or read book Panama Canal Treaties United States Senate Debate 1977 78 March 17 thru April 19 1978 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Separation of Powers and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 2072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Vasco Nu ez de Balboa written by Steven Otfinoski and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2005 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bio describes the life of Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the Spanish explorer who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean and who conceived the idea of a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.