Hearings Before Committee On Interstate And Foreign Commerce House Of Representatives On The Isthmian Canal June 5 1906
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Hearings Before Committee On Interstate And Foreign Commerce House Of Representatives On The Isthmian Canal June 5 1906
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906
Hearings Before Committee On Interstate And Foreign Commerce House Of Representatives On The Isthmian Canal June 5 1906 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1906 with Panama Canal (Panama) categories.
A Catalog Of Books Represented By Library Of Congress Printed Cards Issued To July 31 1942
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
A Catalog Of Books Represented By Library Of Congress Printed Cards Issued To July 31 1942 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Government publications categories.
John Frank Stevens
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Author : Clifford Foust
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2013-10-23
John Frank Stevens written by Clifford Foust and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief engineer of the Panama Canal, creating a technical achievement far ahead of its time. Stevens also served for more than five years as the head of the US Advisory Commission of Railway Experts to Russia and as a consultant who contributed to many engineering feats, including the control of the Mississippi River after the disastrous floods of 1927 and construction of the Boulder (Hoover) Dam. Drawing on Stevens's surviving personal papers and materials from projects with which he was associated, Clifford Foust offers an illuminating look into the life of an accomplished civil engineer.
The Canal Builders
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Author : Julie Greene
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2009-02-05
The Canal Builders written by Julie Greene and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-05 with History categories.
A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of view The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and ingenuity. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis has obscured a far more remarkable element of the historic enterprise: the tens of thousands of workingmen and workingwomen who traveled from all around the world to build it. Greene looks past the mythology surrounding the canal to expose the difficult working conditions and discriminatory policies involved in its construction. Drawing extensively on letters, memoirs, and government documents, the book chronicles both the struggles and the triumphs of the workers and their families. Prodigiously researched and vividly told, The Canal Builders explores the human dimensions of one of the world's greatest labor mobilizations, and reveals how it launched America's twentieth-century empire.
The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
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Crossing Empires
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Author : Kristin L. Hoganson
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-03
Crossing Empires written by Kristin L. Hoganson and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-03 with History categories.
Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context. They draw attention to the breadth of U.S. entanglements with other empires to illuminate the scope and nature of American global power as it reached from the Bering Sea to Australia and East Africa to the Caribbean. With case studies ranging from the 1830s to the late twentieth century, the contributors address topics including diplomacy, governance, anticolonialism, labor, immigration, medicine, religion, and race. Their transimperial approach—whether exemplified in examinations of U.S. steel corporations partnering with British imperialists to build the Ugandan railway or the U.S. reliance on other empires in its governance of the Philippines—transcends histories of interimperial rivalries and conflicts. In so doing, the contributors illuminate the power dynamics of seemingly transnational histories and the imperial origins of contemporary globality. Contributors. Ikuko Asaka, Oliver Charbonneau, Genevieve Clutario, Anne L. Foster, Julian Go, Michel Gobat, Julie Greene, Kristin L. Hoganson, Margaret D. Jacobs, Moon-Ho Jung, Marc-William Palen, Nicole M. Phelps, Jay Sexton, John Soluri, Stephen Tuffnell
The Silver Women
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Author : Joan Flores-Villalobos
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2023-01-31
The Silver Women written by Joan Flores-Villalobos and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-31 with History categories.
The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project’s dependence on the labor of Black migrant women. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to the West Indian women who travelled to Panama, inviting readers to place women’s intimate lives, choices, grief, and ambition at the center of the economic and geopolitical transformation created by the construction of the Panama Canal and U.S. imperial expansion. Joan Flores-Villalobos argues that Black West Indian women made the canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. West Indian women built a provisioning economy that fed, housed, and cared for the segregated Black West Indian labor force, in effect subsidizing the construction effort and the racial calculus that separated pay in silver for Black workers and gold for white Americans. But while also subject to racial discrimination and segregation, West Indian women mostly worked outside the umbrella of U.S. canal authorities. They did not hold contracts, had little access to official services and wages, and received pay in both silver and gold. From this position, they found ways to skirt, and at times subvert, the legal, moral, and economic parameters imperial authorities sought to impose on the migrant workforce. West Indian women developed important strategies of claims-making, kinship, community building, and market adaptation that helped them navigate the contradictions and violence of U.S. empire. In the meantime, these strategies of social reproduction nurtured further West Indian migrations, linking Panama to places like Harlem and Santiago de Cuba. The Silver Women is thus a history of Black women’s labor of social reproduction as integral to U.S. imperial infrastructure, the global Caribbean diaspora, and women’s own survival.
The Panama Canal
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
The Panama Canal written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Panama Canal (Panama) categories.
Hearings Before The Committee On Interstate And Foreign Commerce Of The House Of Representatives On Panama Canal Hotel Tivoli Ancon Canal Zone January 6 And 7 1909
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
Hearings Before The Committee On Interstate And Foreign Commerce Of The House Of Representatives On Panama Canal Hotel Tivoli Ancon Canal Zone January 6 And 7 1909 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with Panama Canal (Panama) categories.
The Cowboy And The Canal
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Author : J.M. Carlisle
language : en
Publisher: Tangent Publishers
Release Date : 2014-07-31
The Cowboy And The Canal written by J.M. Carlisle and has been published by Tangent Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Within a richly layered context, The Cowboy and the Canal probes the intrigue behind Roosevelt's decision to purchase the expiring concession, rotting machinery, and dilapidated buildings from the bankrupt French Panama Canal Company and dig the interoceanic canal in Panama instead of the favored site, Nicaragua. Drawing from primary sources-newspaper stories, editorials, political cartoons, the Congressional record, books, magazines, journals, and letters-The Cowboy and the Canal reintroduces the voices who criticized Roosevelt's actions and questioned his motives, that through time and historical homogenization, have removed from what was at the time, a heated national conversation. These voices add a balance to what has been a one-sided conversation that lauds Roosevelt for "taking Panama" and ignores his indispensable role in manufacturing a rebellion within the country of an ally, Colombia, and in creating one of the biggest frauds of its kind ever perpetrated upon the American people.