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Book The Panama Canal in the Light of American Interests

Download or read book The Panama Canal in the Light of American Interests written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Panama Canal

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  • Author : Kevin Lee Kelley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 50 pages

Download or read book The Panama Canal written by Kevin Lee Kelley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph summarizes the United States historical involvement with the canal. Current economic, military and ineangible American interests in the canal are analyzed. The most likely threats to the canal or American access to it are evaluated.

Book The Panama Canal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin Lee Kelley
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 50 pages

Download or read book The Panama Canal written by Kevin Lee Kelley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph summarizes the United States historical involvement with the canal. Current economic, military and ineangible American interests in the canal are analyzed. The most likely threats to the canal or American access to it are evaluated.

Book The Continuing Controversy

Download or read book The Continuing Controversy written by Paul B. Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Big Ditch

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  • Author : Noel Maurer
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2010-11-08
  • ISBN : 140083628X
  • Pages : 439 pages

Download or read book The Big Ditch written by Noel Maurer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 439 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.

Book The Panama Canal and United States Interests

Download or read book The Panama Canal and United States Interests written by Christopher W. Hoenig and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the future of the Panama Canal. Witnesses: Rep. Bob Barr; Dr. Mark Falcoff, Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, Wash., DC; Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, U.S. Navy (Retired), Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; & Dr. Robert A. Pastor, Director, Latin American & Caribbean Program, The Carter Center, Atlanta, GA. Also, replies of Admiral Moorer to the Comments of Hon. William Hughes, Ambassador to Panama, upon Admiral Moorer's testimony before the Foreign Relations Committee of the U.S. Senate.

Book The Panama Canal and United States Interests

Download or read book The Panama Canal and United States Interests written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch

Download or read book Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch written by Adam Clymer and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable and revealing tale, noted journalist Clymer shows how the decision to give up the Panama Canal stirred emotions already rubbed raw by the loss of the Vietnam War and shaped American politics for years.

Book Emperors in the Jungle

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  • Author : John Lindsay-Poland
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2003-02-11
  • ISBN : 9780822330981
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Emperors in the Jungle written by John Lindsay-Poland and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVFocuses on environmental, policy, and human rights dimensions of the activities of the U.S. military in Panama, analyzing the guiding mythologies and racial stereotypes behind the US's colonialism in the region./div

Book Path of Empire

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  • Author : Aims McGuinness
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2016-12-01
  • ISBN : 1501707337
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Path of Empire written by Aims McGuinness and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly became the linchpin of the fastest route between New York City and San Francisco—a route that combined travel by ship to the east coast of Panama, an overland crossing to Panama City, and a final voyage by ship to California. In Path of Empire, Aims McGuinness presents a novel understanding of the intertwined histories of the California Gold Rush, the course of U.S. empire, and anti-imperialist politics in Latin America. Between 1848 and 1856, Panama saw the building, by a U.S. company, of the first transcontinental railroad in world history, the final abolition of slavery, the establishment of universal manhood suffrage, the foundation of an autonomous Panamanian state, and the first of what would become a long list of military interventions by the United States.Using documents found in Panamanian, Colombian, and U.S. archives, McGuinness reveals how U.S. imperial projects in Panama were integral to developments in California and the larger process of U.S. continental expansion. Path of Empire offers a model for the new transnational history by unbinding the gold rush from the confines of U.S. history as traditionally told and narrating that event as the history of Panama, a small place of global importance in the mid-1800s.

Book Modern Panama

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  • Author : Michael L. Conniff
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-05-09
  • ISBN : 110847666X
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book Modern Panama written by Michael L. Conniff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive overview of the political and economic developments in Panama from 1980 to the present day.

Book The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs

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.

Book The Interest of America in Sea Power  Present and Future

Download or read book The Interest of America in Sea Power Present and Future written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Deep Cut

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  • Author : Christine Keiner
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2020-08
  • ISBN : 0820358630
  • Pages : 275 pages

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.

Book U S  Interest in Panama Canal

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Panama Canal
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 600 pages

Download or read book U S Interest in Panama Canal written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Panama Canal and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prize Possession

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  • Author : John Major
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2003-10-30
  • ISBN : 9780521521260
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book Prize Possession written by John Major and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prize Possession is a history of United States policy towards the Panama Canal, focusing principally on the first two generations of American tenure of the Canal Zone between 1904 and 1955. John Major also provides an extensive look at the nineteenth-century background, the making of the 1903 canal treaty with Panama, the move after 1955 towards the new treaty settlement of 1977, and the crucial significance of the Canal to American policy-makers and their public. The book is based for the most part on the hitherto largely untapped sources of US government agencies, namely, the State, War, and Navy Department, and the Canal Zone administration, as well as on the papers of notable dramatis personae such as Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and Philippe Bunau-Varilla. As such it makes an important and original contribution to our knowledge and understanding of a subject which has not yet received its due from historians.

Book U S  Interest in Panama Canal

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  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Panama Canal/Outer Continental Shelf
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1977
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book U S Interest in Panama Canal written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Panama Canal/Outer Continental Shelf and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: