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El Barco Que Estrenó El Canal de Panamá * the Ship That Opened the Panama Canal
El 15 de agosto de 1914, cuatrocientos un aNos desde que Balboa y sus hombres cortaran un pasaje por el DariEn, el S.S. AncOn cruzO el Istmo de PanamA del ocEano AtlAntico al PacIfico. El viaje tomO un poco mAs de nueve horas con cuarenta minutos y todo marchO viento en popa. AquI estAn los detalles de ese viaje histOrico. Relato bilingUe en espaNol e inglEs. Aprobado por el Ministerio de PanamA como texto complementario para el uso en el salOn de clases. On August 15, 1914, four hundred one years since Balboa and his men cut their way through the Darien, the S.S. Ancon crossed the Isthmus of Panama from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The trip took just over nine hours and forty minutes, and she did it without a hitch. Here are the details of that historic voyage. Bilingual story in Spanish and English. Approved by Panama's Ministry of Education as a complementary text for use in the classroom.
Destiny by Design
Author/photographer Jeremy Snapp has produced a dramatic photo-essay of rare images that depict events in the decade preceding the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. Original photos taken by Snapp's great-grandfather Gerald Sherman, a respected mining engineer of the day, deliver a technical perspective of this undertaking unlike anything previously published. Finally, as the U.S. ceded authority over the canal to the Panamanian government in 1999, Jeremy Snapp travelled to the canal zone with an antique cameratp capture images of the original buildings and construction relics that remained.
The Panama Canal
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The Panama Canal
This newly updated edition of Walter LaFeber's widely praised study of the evolution of U.S.-Panama relations contains two new chapters on the events that have occurred since the Panama Canal Treaty in 1978.This new edition offers particularly detailed examinations of the 1988 attempt to oust Manuel Noriega and Noriega's role in aiding the Nicaraguan Contras, as well as invaluable background information for understanding the 1989 crises. LaFeber argues that the interdependent, but turbulent, relationship between Panama and the United States continued into the 1980s with the U.S. using General Manuel Antonio Noriega to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua. U.S. officials in the Reagan administration also subordinated widespread knowledge of Noriega's drug trafficking in order to keep Panama in line with the U.S. policy towards Nicaragua. But by 1986, the United States both knew and demanded too much of Noriega, and the relationship finally began to fragment. LaFeber's updated volume remains the essential source for anyone who wants a complete picture of U.S.-Panama relations from Balboa to the present.
The Panama Canal
In 'The Panama Canal,' Harry Clow Boardman delves into the monumental engineering feat that reshaped global trade and required an unprecedented amalgamation of international effort, resources, and innovation. The book encapsulates the tumultuous history and the Herculean efforts that went into the canal's construction, presented through a narrative that is as informative as it is engaging. Boardman's prose radiates with detail and clarity, capturing the spirit of an era where industrial ambition met geographical challenge. Situated within the larger context of world literature, this work offers readers a meticulously researched journey through socio-political landscapes, mechanical achieveme...
Beyond the Big Ditch
A historical and ethnographic study of the conflict between global transportation and rural development as the two intersect at the Panama Canal. In this innovative book, Ashley Carse traces the water that flows into and out from the Panama Canal to explain how global shipping is entangled with Panama's cultural and physical landscapes. By following container ships as they travel downstream along maritime routes and tracing rivers upstream across the populated watershed that feeds the canal, he explores the politics of environmental management around a waterway that links faraway ports and markets to nearby farms, forests, cities, and rural communities. Carse draws on a wide range of ethnogr...
Erased
The Panama Canal's untold history—from the Panamanian point of view. Sleuth and scholar Marixa Lasso recounts how the canal’s American builders displaced 40,000 residents and erased entire towns in the guise of bringing modernity to the tropics. The Panama Canal set a new course for the modern development of Central America. Cutting a convenient path from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, it hastened the currents of trade and migration that were already reshaping the Western hemisphere. Yet the waterway was built at considerable cost to a way of life that had characterized the region for centuries. In Erased, Marixa Lasso recovers the history of the Panamanian cities and towns that onc...
