Author: Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.)
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Category : Canals, Interoceanic
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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Author: Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Canals, Interoceanic
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Canals, Interoceanic
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.).
Publisher:
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Author: Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.)
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Category : Canal Zone
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Author: Graciela Arosemena Díaz
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031387708
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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The construction of the Panama Canal at the beginning of the twentieth century created an enclave that ran parallel to the interoceanic waterway, controlled by the US government: the Canal Zone. This book aims to understand the implications that Panama Canal Zone urban planning had on human health, natural resources, and biodiversity through the study case of Fort Clayton, highlighting how the sanitary concerns shaped building regulations and the urban landscape of towns. This book highlights the role of North American entomologists and health workers in developing control strategies for diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and how mosquito’s ecology determined building regulations that shaped the image of the Canal Zone towns. On the other hand, the book determines the environmental assessment of Fort Clayton, determined by the two fundamental aspects that set on the environmental impact of an urban settlement. The first one is the suitability of the site's location. The second is the urban structure of the adopted city model and its impact on the connectivity of the surrounding forests during the twentieth century. This text is aimed at both undergraduate and postgraduate students, architects, urban planners, historians, and environmental science professionals.

Author: United States. Government Printing Office
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Author: United States. Government Printing Office
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Author: Rory McGovern
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700627707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Best known for leading the construction of the Panama Canal, George W. Goethals (1858–1928) also played a key role in the decades-long reform that transformed the American military from a frontier constabulary to the expeditionary force of an ascendant world power. George W. Goethals and the Army is at once the first full account of Goethals’s life and military career in ninety years and an in-depth analysis of the process that defined his generation’s military service—the evolution of the US Army during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. George W. Goethals was a lieutenant and a captain during the post-Reconstruction years of debate about reform and the future of the army. He was a major when the most significant reforms were created, and he helped with their implementation. As a major general during World War I, he directed a significant part of the army’s adaptation, resolving crises in the mobilization effort caused largely by years of internal resistance to reform. Following Goethals’s career and analyzing reform from his unique perspective, military historian Rory McGovern effectively shifts the focus away from the intent and toward the reality of reform—revealing the importance of the interaction between society, institutional structures, and institutional culture in the process. In this analysis, Goethals’s experiences, military thought, managerial philosophy, conceptions of professionalism, and attitude about training and development provide a framework for understanding the army’s institutional culture and his generation’s relative ambivalence about reform. In its portrait of an officer whose career bridged the distance between military generations, George W. Goethals and the Army also offers a compelling and complex interpretation of American military reform during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era—and valuable insight into the larger dynamics of institutional change that are as relevant today as they were a century ago.

Author: Isthmian Canal Commission (U.S.)
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Category : Canal Zone
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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