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Urban Development and the Panama Canal Zone
The construction of the Panama Canal at the beginning of the twentieth century created an enclave that ran parallel to the interoceanic waterway, controlled by the US government: the Canal Zone. This book aims to understand the implications that Panama Canal Zone urban planning had on human health, natural resources, and biodiversity through the study case of Fort Clayton, highlighting how the sanitary concerns shaped building regulations and the urban landscape of towns. This book highlights the role of North American entomologists and health workers in developing control strategies for diseases transmitted by mosquitoes and how mosquito’s ecology determined building regulations that shap...
Increasing Capacity for Stewardship of Oceans and Coasts
Marine environments support the livelihoods, economies, and quality of life for communities around the world. But growth of coastal populations and increasing demands on marine resources are putting the future of ocean and coastal resources at risk through impacts such as overfishing, wetland drainage, climate change, and pollution of coastal waters. Given these demands, it is vital to build capacity-the people, the institutions, and technology and tools-needed to manage ocean resources. Unfortunately, many capacity building efforts focus on specific projects rather than on capacity building as goal unto itself, resulting in activities that are not funded or sustained past the typically shor...
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EL ARTE DE LA REPRESENTACIÓN DEL ESPACIO
Esta obra da a conocer una interesante colección iconográfica sobre cartografía y planimetría históricas, en su mayor parte inédita hasta ahora, compuesta por 630 mapas y planos de diversa tipología y temática, procedente del Archivo Ducal de Medinaceli. El libro se compone de 6 capítulos, con estudios monográficos sobre la colección, y del catálogo detallado de cada uno de los ejemplares, en trabajo realizado por un prestigioso equipo de investigación financiado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. La mayor parte de esos mapas y planos son representaciones territoriales y monumentales de la Península Ibérica, pero también hay ejemplares de Francia, Países Bajos, Italia, el norte de África e Hispanoamérica. La obra es una valiosa muestra del trabajo cartográfico como arte, pues el material reproducido presenta cualidades formales -estéticas y didácticas- que permiten explotar al máximo las capacidades visuales del lector.
The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panamá
In its 11,000 year human history, the Isthmus of Panamá has been dominated by its relationship to the sea and the rivers that feed it. A unique marine environment, the land bridge shaped its inhabitants’ activities, and those inhabitants shaped the Isthmus—from harvesting resources to physically transforming the land to link two oceans. This seminal work explores this intersection between people and the environment, mining the archaeological and ethnological record created during the formation and development of Panamá's maritime cultural landscape. Assessing sites both submerged and on land, the authors explore the maritime history of the isthmus through its many stages: from its prehistoric period through Spanish colonialism to the building of the canal and its function as a route for modern-day maritime traffic. Combining archaeology, history, geography, and economic history, this volume situates Panamá's canal and isthmus in the global economy and world maritime culture, while providing a more complex understanding of human adaptation and the persistence of culture.
Path of Empire
Most people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly became the linchpin of the fastest route between New York City and San Francisco—a route that combined travel by ship to the east coast of Panama, an overland crossing to Panama City, and a final voyage by ship to California. In Path of Empire, Aims McGuinness presents a novel understanding of the intertwined histories of the California Gold Rush, the course of U.S. empire, and anti-imperialist politics in Latin America. Between 1...
