The Conquest Of The Isthmus
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The Conquest Of The Isthmus
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Author : Hugh Cosgro Weir
language : en
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Release Date : 1910
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The Conquest Of The Isthmus
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Author : Hugh Weir
language : en
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Release Date : 1909
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The Conquest Of The Isthmus
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Author : Hugh C. Weir
language : en
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Release Date : 2015-08-06
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Excerpt from The Conquest of the Isthmus: The Men Who Are Building the Panama Canal Their Daily Lives, Perils, and Adventures The Panama Canal never will be dug by machinery alone. Beyond the steam shovels and the dirt trains, beyond the air-drillers and the dredges, the union of the Atlantic and the Pacific depends upon the men who are giving health, wealth, and life in the battle with the tropical jungle. It is of these men, the khaki heroes of the wilderness, of whom I would tell, the men who have rubbed elbows with death from almost every angle and in almost every guise, in order that the American nation might win the greatest industrial victory in the history of the world. We have heard much of the industrial, political, mechanical, and financial sides of the Panama Canal. In fact the mass of material of this kind we have digested has smothered the human aspect of the great waterway. In the discussion of locks and dams, the romance of the Isthmus has been overlooked. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Conquest Of The Isthmus
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Author : Hugh C. (Hugh Cosgro) Weir
language : en
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Release Date : 2016-08-28
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Hardcover reprint of the original 1909 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. All foldouts have been masterfully reprinted in their original form. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Weir, Hugh C. (Hugh Cosgro) . The Conquest Of The Isthmus; The Men Who Are Building The Panama Canal--Their Daily Lives, Perils, And Adventures. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Weir, Hugh C. (Hugh Cosgro) . The Conquest Of The Isthmus; The Men Who Are Building The Panama Canal--Their Daily Lives, Perils, And Adventures, . New York And London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909
The Conquest Of The Isthmus
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Author : Hugh Weir
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-11-20
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The Conquest Of The Isthmus The Men Who Are Building The Panama Canal Their Daily Lives Perils And Adventures Fully Illustrated
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Author : Hugh C. WEIR
language : en
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Release Date : 1909
The Conquest Of The Isthmus The Men Who Are Building The Panama Canal Their Daily Lives Perils And Adventures Fully Illustrated written by Hugh C. WEIR and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with categories.
The Conquest Of The Isthmus
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Author : Hugh Weir
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2013-11
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Francisco Pizarro
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Author : Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick
language : en
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Release Date : 1890
Francisco Pizarro written by Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Adventure stories categories.
The Isthmus
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Author : Bruce Stores
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009
The Isthmus written by Bruce Stores and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
Mexican history is as tortured and crooked (in both senses of the word) as an ox cart trail--unexpected turns around every corner, replete with bumps and declivities. The casual reader of general Mexican history will find it difficult keeping up with the list of Mexico s principal characters over the centuries, now expanding, then suddenly contracting due to assassinations, exiles, military defeats, and alliances gone awry. Oaxacan writer Bruce Stores solves that problem by employing a simple technique used for millennia by the local indigenous peoples: storytelling. His take on historical fiction paints a human, everyday face on the historian s cold mask of dates, places, and wars. Structuring his book around key historical events, he asks--and answers--the questions: How did that feel? Who was affected? What happened to the community, the families? The focus of this book, as its title implies, is the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the bottom of the scorpion s tail of Mexican geography. At its narrowest point, it s only approximately 125 miles wide, spanning the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific, making the Isthmus an early, much-courted, often-spurned alternative to the Panama Canal. The region s remoteness, heat, and lack of picturesque colonial cities or swank beach resorts have kept tourists far away. And perhaps because of that, and sociological factors as well, the Isthmus has managed to protect its distinct, largely indigenous, culture. Stores explains that culture to us over a 500-year period through the pre-Conquest period with its intertribal warfare to Cortes arrival, the battles for independence from Spain, and the French Intervention. In the modern era, his characters fight political battles from Mexico City s university protests to struggles with the domination of the long-entrenched Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). A common thread for all the stories is the importance of land to the Zapotec people. It defines them. Land ownership in Oaxaca, Gomez told the Judge, has different roots. The system of property rights among the pre-Colombian natives was, without a doubt, antagonistic to the Spaniards sense of private property. Yet to the indigenous peoples, their communal property holdings were as natural to them as night and day. Because their land was the provider of their food, they considered it to be divine. Yes. Their land was to them a god. And, just as the air and the wind belong to everyone, they couldn t come to terms with European notions of private property. '" The Isthmus succeeds in elucidating a little-understood region of Mexico. And its telling of tales brings us closer the fierce human spirit that has withstood and shaped-- its history.
The Conquest Of Peru
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Author :
language : en
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Release Date : 1849
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