Author: Marixa Lasso
Publisher:
Published: 2019-02-25
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0674984447
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The untold history of the Panama Canal--from Panama's point of view. Sleuth and scholar, Marixa Lasso has uncovered a long-overlooked story: to build their Canal, Americans displaced 40,000 Panamanians and erased entire cities, only to convince the world they had brought modernity to the tropics.--
Author: John Saxon Mills
Publisher: London : Thomas Nelson and Sons
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Noel Maurer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 0691248079
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An incisive economic and political history of the Panama Canal On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu reveal a more complex story. Examining the Canal's influence on Panama, the United States, and the world, The Big Ditch deftly chronicles the economic and political history of the Canal, from Spain's earliest proposals in 1529 through the final handover of the Canal to Panama on December 31, 1999, to the present day. The authors show that the Canal produced great economic dividends for the first quarter-century following its opening, despite massive cost overruns and delays. Relying on geographical advantage and military might, the United States captured most of these benefits. By the 1970s, however, when the Carter administration negotiated the eventual turnover of the Canal back to Panama, the strategic and economic value of the Canal had disappeared. And yet, contrary to skeptics who believed it was impossible for a fledgling nation plagued by corruption to manage the Canal, when the Panamanians finally had control, they switched the Canal from a public utility to a for-profit corporation, ultimately running it better than their northern patrons. A remarkable tale, The Big Ditch offers vital lessons about the impact of large-scale infrastructure projects, American overseas interventions on institutional development, and the ability of governments to run companies effectively.
Author: Ira Elbert Bennett
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Historical Publishing Company
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 754
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: I. Bennett
Publisher:
Published: 1976-08-01
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 9780849020056
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ulrich Keller
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-04-09
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 0486319253
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This tale of an unprecedented technological advance unfolds in a compelling narrative of risks, hardships, disasters, and triumph. More than 160 historic photographs depict exotic settings, workers' housing, dredging operations, much more.
Author: Ira E. Bennett
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780243655250
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Janet B. Pascal
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-07-17
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 0698171853
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the world’s most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!