Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies Division
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Category : Panama
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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U.S. Army Area Handbook for Colombia
Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies Division
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Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Special Warfare Area Handbook for Panama
Author: American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies Division
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Category : Panama
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Publisher:
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Category : Panama
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Operation Just Cause
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The Panama Canal
Author: Jon T. Hoffman
Publisher: Government Printing Office
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This pamphlet describes the critical role of Army officers who defied the odds and saw this immense project through to completion. They included Col. William C. Gorgas, who supervised the medical effort that saved countless lives and made it possible for the labor force to do its job; Col. George W. Goethals, who oversaw the final design of the canal and its construction and, equally important, motivated his workers to complete the herculean task ahead of schedule; and many other officers who headed up the project's subordinate construction commands and rebuilt the Panama railroad, a key component of the venture. In just seven years, these soldiers, thousands of fellow Americans, and tens of thousands of workers from around the world turned the dream of an isthmian canal into reality. Their success immediately ranked among the greatest peacetime feats of the Army and the nation, and it remains so to this day.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
This pamphlet describes the critical role of Army officers who defied the odds and saw this immense project through to completion. They included Col. William C. Gorgas, who supervised the medical effort that saved countless lives and made it possible for the labor force to do its job; Col. George W. Goethals, who oversaw the final design of the canal and its construction and, equally important, motivated his workers to complete the herculean task ahead of schedule; and many other officers who headed up the project's subordinate construction commands and rebuilt the Panama railroad, a key component of the venture. In just seven years, these soldiers, thousands of fellow Americans, and tens of thousands of workers from around the world turned the dream of an isthmian canal into reality. Their success immediately ranked among the greatest peacetime feats of the Army and the nation, and it remains so to this day.
Area Handbook for Panama
Author: Thomas E. Weil
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Category : Panama
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category : Panama
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Emperors in the Jungle
Author: John Lindsay-Poland
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822384604
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Emperors in the Jungle is an exposé of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming tropical jungles and people, combined with commercial and military objectives, shaped more than a century of intervention and environmental engineering in a small, strategically located nation. Whether uncovering the U.S. Army’s decades-long program of chemical weapons tests in Panama or recounting the invasion in December 1989 which was the U.S. military’s twentieth intervention in Panama since 1856, John Lindsay-Poland vividly portrays the extent and costs of U.S. involvement. Analyzing new evidence gathered through interviews, archival research, and Freedom of Information Act requests, Lindsay-Poland discloses the hidden history of U.S.–Panama relations, including the human and environmental toll of the massive canal building project from 1904 to 1914. In stunning detail he describes secret chemical weapons tests—of toxins including nerve agent and Agent Orange—as well as plans developed in the 1960s to use nuclear blasts to create a second canal in Panama. He chronicles sustained efforts by Panamanians and international environmental groups to hold the United States responsible for the disposal of the tens of thousands of explosives it left undetonated on the land it turned over to Panama in 1999. In the context of a relationship increasingly driven by the U.S. antidrug campaigns, Lindsay-Poland reports on the myriad issues that surrounded Panama’s takeover of the canal in accordance with the 1977 Panama Canal Treaty, and he assesses the future prospects for the Panamanian people, land, and canal area. Bringing to light historical legacies unknown to most U.S. citizens or even to many Panamanians, Emperors in the Jungle is a major contribution toward a new, more open relationship between Panama and the United States.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822384604
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Emperors in the Jungle is an exposé of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming tropical jungles and people, combined with commercial and military objectives, shaped more than a century of intervention and environmental engineering in a small, strategically located nation. Whether uncovering the U.S. Army’s decades-long program of chemical weapons tests in Panama or recounting the invasion in December 1989 which was the U.S. military’s twentieth intervention in Panama since 1856, John Lindsay-Poland vividly portrays the extent and costs of U.S. involvement. Analyzing new evidence gathered through interviews, archival research, and Freedom of Information Act requests, Lindsay-Poland discloses the hidden history of U.S.–Panama relations, including the human and environmental toll of the massive canal building project from 1904 to 1914. In stunning detail he describes secret chemical weapons tests—of toxins including nerve agent and Agent Orange—as well as plans developed in the 1960s to use nuclear blasts to create a second canal in Panama. He chronicles sustained efforts by Panamanians and international environmental groups to hold the United States responsible for the disposal of the tens of thousands of explosives it left undetonated on the land it turned over to Panama in 1999. In the context of a relationship increasingly driven by the U.S. antidrug campaigns, Lindsay-Poland reports on the myriad issues that surrounded Panama’s takeover of the canal in accordance with the 1977 Panama Canal Treaty, and he assesses the future prospects for the Panamanian people, land, and canal area. Bringing to light historical legacies unknown to most U.S. citizens or even to many Panamanians, Emperors in the Jungle is a major contribution toward a new, more open relationship between Panama and the United States.
Military Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Military Publications
Author: United States. Department of the Army
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Technical Abstract Bulletin
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Book Catalog of the Library and Information Services Division: Shelf List catalog
Author: Environmental Science Information Center. Library and Information Services Division
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Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Publisher:
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Category : Earth sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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