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Goethals, 880-1900
This family history publishes, for the first time in English, the three classical branches of the Goethals family of Ghent, Belgium, as well as the saga of three "forgotten" Goethals branches, among them the ancestry of General George Washington Goethals, builder of the Panama Canal.
Goethals - Genius of the Panama Canal - A Biography
Text extracted from opening pages of book: G O E T H & L S GENIUS OF THE PANAMA CANAL A BIOGRAPHY BY JOSEPH BUCKLIN BISHOP Author of ts The Panama Gateway and Editor of Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children FARNHAM BISHOP Author of Our First War in Mexico HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON 1930 THE CHAIRMAN AND CHIEF ENGINEER, ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION TO THE OLD CANAL MEN TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface xi i. The Colonel 1 n. The Boy and the Book 12 in. West Point Has a Happy New Year 38 iv. Early Engineering Work 53 v. Assistant to the Chief of Engineers and Service in the Porto Rican Campaign 72 vi. West Point, Coast Fortifications, and the General Staff 83 vn. Panama from ...
Goethals, 880-1900
This family history publishes, for the first time in English, the three classical branches of the Goethals family of Ghent, Belgium, as well as the saga of three "forgotten" Goethals branches, among them the ancestry of General George Washington Goethals, builder of the Panama Canal.
A Forgotten Family
The book describes the ancestry of General Goethals in Ghent, Belgium, from the 1500s, as well as the branch of Geeraert Goethals, ennobled in 1652. A list of all Goethals recorded in nine parishes in Ghent from 1584 to 1796 is added in appendix.
Leadership and Discovery
This book, a collection of essays from scholars across disciplines, explores leadership of discovery, probing the guided and collaborative exploration and interpretation of the experience of our inner thoughts and feelings, and of our external worlds.
Carbohydrate Chemistry
Volume 40 of Carbohydrate Chemistry: Chemical and Biological Approaches demonstrates the importance of the glycosciences for innovation and societal progress. Carbohydrates are molecules with essential roles in biology and also serve as renewable resources for the generation of new chemicals and materials. Honouring Professor André Lubineau's memory, this volume resembles a special collection of contributions in the fields of green and low-carbon chemistry, innovative synthetic methodology and design of carbohydrate architectures for medicinal and biological chemistry. Green methodology is illustrated by accounts on the industrial development of water-promoted reactions (C-glycosylation, cy...
George W. Goethals and the Army
Best known for leading the construction of the Panama Canal, George W. Goethals (1858–1928) also played a key role in the decades-long reform that transformed the American military from a frontier constabulary to the expeditionary force of an ascendant world power. George W. Goethals and the Army is at once the first full account of Goethals’s life and military career in ninety years and an in-depth analysis of the process that defined his generation’s military service—the evolution of the US Army during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. George W. Goethals was a lieutenant and a captain during the post-Reconstruction years of debate about reform and the future of the...
