Author: United States. Congress
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1922
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Reports and Documents
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1922
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1922
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Canal Record
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Publisher:
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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Canal Record
Author:
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Erased
Author: Marixa Lasso
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Panama Canal Record
Author: Canal Zone
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Red, White, and Blue Paradise
Author: Herbert Knapp
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Category : Administrative procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
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Category : Administrative procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 1198
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Annual Reports of the Panama Canal Company and the Canal Zone Government
Author: Panama Canal Company
Publisher:
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Category : Canal Zone
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Category : Canal Zone
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Report
Author: United States. Congress Senate
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2360
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2360
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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
Book Description
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
Book Description
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index