Panama Canal Record

Panama Canal Record PDF Author: Canal Zone
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Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Panama Canal Record

Panama Canal Record PDF Author: Canal Zone
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Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Erased

Erased PDF Author: Marixa Lasso
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674984447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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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.

Canal Record

Canal Record PDF Author:
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Silver People

Silver People PDF Author: Margarita Engle
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544109414
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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As the Panama Canal turns one hundred, Newbery Honor winner Margarita Engle tells the story of its creation in this powerful new YA historical novel in verse.

Canal Record

Canal Record PDF Author:
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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The Impossible Dream

The Impossible Dream PDF Author: Ian Cameron
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Panama Canal Record

Panama Canal Record PDF Author:
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 490

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Philippe Bunau-Varilla, the Man Behind the Panama Canal

Philippe Bunau-Varilla, the Man Behind the Panama Canal PDF Author: G. A. Anguizola
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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The Panama Canal

The Panama Canal PDF Author: Frederic Jennings Haskin
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Category : Canal de Panama
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Panama Canal Record

Panama Canal Record PDF Author:
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 676

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