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Building the Panama Canal
- Title
- Building the Panama Canal / Sylvia Engdahl, book editor.
- Publication
- Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2012.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Engdahl, Sylvia.
- Description
- 210 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Presents differing viewpoints on the history of, and controversies surrounding, the Panama Canal, and features four personal narratives about its construction and the displacement of natives that resulted from it.
- Series Statement
- Perspectives on modern world history
- Uniform Title
- Perspectives on modern world history.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-203) and index.
- Contents
- CH 1. Historical Background on the Building of the Panama Canal -- Overview of Building the Panama Canal by Stephanie Watson -- Preparing for Construction of the Canal by Panama Canal Authority -- Deciding on the Design of the Canal by Duncan E. McKinlay -- Women Play an Important Role in the Canal Project by Wenona Marlin -- How Ships Will Navigate the Completed Canal by Joseph Bucklin Bishop and Robert E. Peary -- Expectations of the Influence of the Canal by Elisha Jay Edwards
- CH 2. Controversies Surrounding the Building of the Panama Canal -- The Role Played by the United Sates in the Panamanian Revolution Was Ethical by Philippe Bunau-Varilla -- The Role Played by the United States in the Panamanian Revolution Was Not Ethical by Abelardo Aldana -- The Actions of the US President in Acquiring the Canal Zone Were Justifiable by Theodore Roosevelt -- The Actions of the US President in Acquiring the Canal Zone Were Not Justifiable by James T. Du Bois -- The Panama Canal Construction Workers Are Treated Fairly by Robert M. Burnett and John V. Farwell Jr. -- Black Panama Canal Construction Workers Are Not Treated Fairly by David Newton E. Campbell -- Exemption of US Coastwise Shipping from Canal Tolls Is Not Fair to Great Britain by Henry Erle Richards -- Exemption of US Coastwise Shipping from Canal Tolls Is Warranted by Jahrbuch des Volkerrechts -- Repeal of the Law Exempting US Coastwise Shipping from Canal Tolls Was Morally Right by Joseph P. Tumulty -- The Panama Project Was Conducted Less Admirably than the Popular Media Claimed by Chris Rasmussen -- The Panama Canal Project Was a Monument to Optimism and National Pride by Edward Tenner.
- CH 3. Personal Narratives -- First Lady Helen Taft Recalls Her Trips to the Panama Canal Zone by Helen Herron Taft -- President Theodore Roosevelt Describes His Impressions of the Canal's Construction by Theodore Roosevelt -- A Popular Author Reports on the Dangerous Job of Cutting Through a Mountain by Hugh C. Weir -- A Canal Zone Policeman Reflects on the Distress of Panamanians Displaced by the New Lake by Harry A. Franck.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-2175
- ISBN
- 9780737763645 (hardcover)
- 0737763647 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 2012009231
- OCLC
- 780415696
- Title
- Building the Panama Canal / Sylvia Engdahl, book editor.
- Imprint
- Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2012.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Perspectives on modern world historyPerspectives on modern world history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-203) and index.
- Added Author
- Engdahl, Sylvia.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-2175