Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1922
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 2022
Book Description
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
The Abridgment
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
List of Works Relating to the West Indies
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Indies
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Seaway to the Future
Author: Alexander MissalPublisher: 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