Author: Mary Ann Hoffman Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1448837154 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
Book Description
The Panama Canal is a modern marvel, but the idea for it arose in the 16th century through Spanish exploration. Deemed impossible at the time, humankind would have to wait a few centuries to see it become a reality. Readers will love learning about the history and science behind this wonder. Books of the Real Life Readers Program use real life scenario narratives to help readers further develop content-area reading, writing, and comprehension skills.
Author: Judith St. George Publisher: Putnam Juvenile ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 168
Book Description
Presents a history of the Panama Canal from the time Colombus first anchored off the coast of Panama through the signing of the 1977 United States-Panama treaties.
Author: Mary Ann Hoffman Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 1435802071 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
Book Description
The Panama Canal is a modern marvel, but the idea for it arose in the 16th century through Spanish exploration. Deemed impossible at the time, humankind would have to wait a few centuries to see it become a reality. Readers will love learning about the history and science behind this wonder. Books of the Real Life Readers Program use real life scenario narratives to help readers further develop content-area reading, writing, and comprehension skills.
Author: Alexander Missal Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press ISBN: 0299229432 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 282
Book Description
Realizing the century-old dream of a passage to India, the building of the Panama Canal was an engineering feat of colossal dimensions, a construction site filled not only with mud and water but with interpretations, meanings, and social visions. Alexander Missal’s Seaway to the Future unfolds a cultural history of the Panama Canal project, revealed in the texts and images of the era’s policymakers and commentators. Observing its creation, journalists, travel writers, and officials interpreted the Canal and its environs as a perfect society under an efficient, authoritarian management featuring innovations in technology, work, health, and consumption. For their middle-class audience in the United States, the writers depicted a foreign yet familiar place, a showcase for the future—images reinforced in the exhibits of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition that celebrated the Canal’s completion. Through these depictions, the building of the Panama Canal became a powerful symbol in a broader search for order as Americans looked to the modern age with both anxiety and anticipation. Like most utopian visions, this one aspired to perfection at the price of exclusion. Overlooking the West Indian laborers who built the Canal, its admirers praised the white elite that supervised and administered it. Inspired by the masculine ideal personified by President Theodore Roosevelt, writers depicted the Canal Zone as an emphatically male enterprise and Chief Engineer George W. Goethals as the emblem of a new type of social leader, the engineer-soldier, the benevolent despot. Examining these and other images of the Panama Canal project, Seaway to the Future shows how they reflected popular attitudes toward an evolving modern world and, no less important, helped shape those perceptions. Best Books for Regional Special Interests, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association “Provide[s] a useful vantage on the world bequeathed to us by the forces that set out to put America astride the globe nearly a century ago.”—Chris Rasmussen, Bookforum
Author: Joseph Bucklin Bishop Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781020621468 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Joseph Bucklin Bishop provides a fascinating account of the construction of the Panama Canal, which is one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. This book examines the political, social, and economic factors which made the canal possible, as well as the various challenges that had to be overcome during its construction. 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 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. 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.
Author: Lincoln Hutchinson Publisher: Hardpress Publishing ISBN: 9781290879828 Category : Languages : en Pages : 314
Book Description
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.
Author: Commission Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781419646188 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
Global Passage: Transformation of Panama and the Panama Canal by former Panama Canal Commission Chairman Robert McMillan is an insider's brilliantly researched book about the past, present and future of Panama and the Panama Canal. The publication of the book will coincide with the approval by Panamanian voters of a $5.25 billion dollar canal enlargement project.
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