Author: United States. Panama CanalPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Isthmian Canal Studies, 1947: Narrative of Explorations, Caledonia Bay Route 10
Author: United States. Panama CanalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Isthmian Canal Studies
Author: United States. Atlantic-Pacific Interoceanic Canal Study CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Canals, Interoceanic
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Erased
Author: Marixa LassoPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674984447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
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.
Isthmian Canal Studies of 1947
Author: The Big Ditch
Author: Noel MaurerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691248079
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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.
Sea-level Canal Studies
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Panama CanalPublisher:
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Core Drilling, Isthmian Canal Studies--1947
Author: Second Transisthmian Canal
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. CommercePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Index and Summary of I.C.P. Memoranda Relating to Isthmian Canal Studies--1947
Author: Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission for the Year Ending ...
Author: Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canals, Interoceanic
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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