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Book Views of Panama and the Canal

Download or read book Views of Panama and the Canal written by and published by . This book was released on 191? with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Panama Canal

Download or read book The Panama Canal written by Thomas Herbert Russell and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal

Download or read book The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal written by Marixa Lasso and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold history of the Panama Canal--from Panama's point of view. Sleuth and scholar, Marixa Lasso has uncovered a long-overlooked story: to build their Canal, Americans displaced 40,000 Panamanians and erased entire cities, only to convince the world they had brought modernity to the tropics.--

Book Views of Panama canal

Download or read book Views of Panama canal written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Path Between the Seas

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  • Author : David McCullough
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2001-10-27
  • ISBN : 074320137X
  • Pages : 698 pages

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.

Book Views of Panama Canal

Download or read book Views of Panama Canal written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Panama and the Canal Zone Illustrated from Actual Photographs with Descriptive Matter Accompanying Each View

Download or read book Panama and the Canal Zone Illustrated from Actual Photographs with Descriptive Matter Accompanying Each View written by Hardpress and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book Stereoscopic Views of the Panama Canal Zone

Download or read book Stereoscopic Views of the Panama Canal Zone written by Underwood & Underwood and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book What Is the Panama Canal

Download or read book What Is the Panama Canal written by Janet B. Pascal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the world’s most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!

Book Panama Canal Title

Download or read book Panama Canal Title written by United States. Department of Justice and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Panama Canal Tolls

Download or read book Panama Canal Tolls written by Chandler P. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Canal Builders

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  • Author : Julie Greene
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2009-02-05
  • ISBN : 1101011556
  • Pages : 520 pages

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.

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

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  • Author : Thomas Herbert Russell
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2016-04-24
  • ISBN : 9781354436660
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book The Panama Canal written by Thomas Herbert Russell and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book History of the Panama Canal

Download or read book History of the Panama Canal written by Ira Elbert Bennett and published by Washington, D.C. : Historical Publishing Company. This book was released on 1915 with total page 752 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.