Author: Theodore RooseveltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
How the United States Acquired the Right to Dig the Panama Canal
Author: Theodore RooseveltHow We Acquired the Right to Dig the Panama Canal
Author: Fairley Patterson JamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
The Panama Canal and Our Relations with Colombia
Author: How Wall Street Created a Nation
Author: Ovidio Diaz-EspinoPublisher: Primedia E-launch LLC
ISBN: 0990552128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
How Wall Street Created a Nation: J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal narrates the dramatic and gripping account of the beginnings of the Panama Canal led by a group of Wall Street speculators with the help of Teddy Roosevelt’s government. The result of four years of research, the book offers the real story of how the United States obtained the rights to build the Canal through financial speculation, fraud, and an international conspiracy that brought down a French republic and a Colombian government, created the Republic of Panama, rocked the invincible President Roosevelt with corruption scandals, and gave birth to U.S. imperialism in Latin America.
How the United States Acquired the Right to Build the Panama Canal
Author: Walter A. MoyerThe Big Ditch
Author: Noel MaurerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140083628X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
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.
The Story of Panama
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panama
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch
Author: Adam ClymerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
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.
The Canal Builders
Author: Julie GreenePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101011556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
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.
Panama Fever
Author: Matthew ParkerPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307472531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever draws on contemporary accounts, bringing the experience of those who built the canal vividly to life. Politicians engaged in high-stakes diplomacy in order to influence its construction. Meanwhile, engineers and workers from around the world rushed to take advantage of high wages and the chance to be a part of history. Filled with remarkable characters, Panama Fever is an epic history that shows how a small, fiercely contested strip of land made the world a smaller place and launched the era of American global dominance.