[PDF.89mf] The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin History of American Life)

The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin History of American Life)

[PDF.cz63] The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin History of American Life)

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 | #382159 in Books |  2010-03-30 |  2010-03-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.40 x1.10 x5.40l,.91 | File type: PDF | 512 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A very interesting and important book|By Robert V. Rose, retired education researcher|Author Greene is obviously a left-wing, liberal author, and she describes the imperialist, racist and political motivation behind Teddy Roosevelt's building of the canal. A much more balanced account, including the previous massive (and failed) attempt to build the canal by the French, is giv|From Booklist|Like preceding chronicles of the construction of the Panama Canal (Matthew Parker’s Panama Fever, 2008), Greene’s account focuses on its feats of engineering, but in this case, social eng

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 surroundin...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin History of American Life)   |  Julie Greene. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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