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Erased : The Untold Story of the Panama Canal /

Cutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central America-but at considerable cost to Panamanians. Sleuth and scholar Marixa Lasso recounts how the canal's American builders displaced 40,000 residents and erased entire towns in the...

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Autor principal: Lasso, Marixa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]
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Sumario:Cutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central America-but at considerable cost to Panamanians. 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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (352 p.)
ISBN:9780674239746
9783110610765
9783110664232
9783110610178
9783110606195
9783110652031
Acceso:restricted access