The canal builders : making America's empire at the Panama Canal / Julie Greene.

By:

Greene, Julie, 1956-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Spanish Series: Penguin history of American lifePublication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2009.Description: 475 p., [8] p. de pl. : illISBN:

9781594202018
159420201X

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

972.875051 22

LOC classification:

114 F 1569 G811c 2009

Contents:

Prologue: President Roosevelt's steam shovel -- A modern state in the tropics -- "As I am a true American" -- Silver lives -- Lay down your shovels -- Progressivism for the world -- The women's empire -- Law and order -- The riots of Cocoa Grove -- Hercules comes home.

Summary: 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 surrounding the canal to expose the difficult working conditions and discriminatory policies involved in its construction. Drawing extensively on letters, memoirs, and government documents, the book chronicles both the struggles and triumphs of the workers and their families. Prodigiously researched and vividly told, The Canal Builders explores the human dimensions of one of the world's greatest labor mobilizations, and reveals how it launched America's twentieth-century empire"--Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Recursos Regionales	Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso)	114 F 1569 G811c 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000071084

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Prologue: President Roosevelt's steam shovel --
A modern state in the tropics --
"As I am a true American" --
Silver lives --
Lay down your shovels --
Progressivism for the world --
The women's empire --
Law and order --
The riots of Cocoa Grove --
Hercules comes home.

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 surrounding the canal to expose the difficult working conditions and discriminatory policies involved in its construction. Drawing extensively on letters, memoirs, and government documents, the book chronicles both the struggles and triumphs of the workers and their families. Prodigiously researched and vividly told, The Canal Builders explores the human dimensions of one of the world's greatest labor mobilizations, and reveals how it launched America's twentieth-century empire"--Back cover.

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