Borderland on the isthmus : race, culture, and the struggle for the canal zone /

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The construction, maintenance, and defense of the Panama Canal brought Panamanians, U.S. soldiers and civilians, West Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans into close, even intimate, contact. In this lively and provocative social history, Michael E. Donoghue positions the Panama Canal Zone as an impe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Donoghue, Michael E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:American encounters/global interactions.
Temas:
1900-1999
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
HISTORY > Latin America > Central America.
Race relations.
Social conditions
Panama Canal (Panama) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Panama Canal (Panama) > Race relations > 20th century.
Canal de Panamá (Panamá) > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Canal de Panamá (Panamá) > Relations raciales > 20e siècle.
Panama > Panama Canal.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Borderland on the Isthmus: the changing boundaries and frontiers of the Panama Canal Zone
  • Race and identity in the Zone-Panama borderland: Zonians Uber Alles
  • Race and identity in the zone-Panama borderland: West Indians contra todos
  • Desire, sexuality, and gender in the Zone-Panama borderland
  • The U.S. Military: armed guardians of the borderland
  • "Injuring the power system": crime and resistance in the borderland
  • The Zone-Panama borderland and the complexity of U.S. Empire.

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