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The Panama Railroad /
"In 1848, a group of ambitious American entrepreneurs decided to embark upon a remarkable engineering feat-they would build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The creation of the Panama Railroad ranks as one the boldest capitalist ventures in the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Railroads past and present.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- THE PANAMA RAILROAD
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I: CONSTRUCTION
- 1 The Grand Design
- 2 A False Start
- 3 Slow Progress
- 4 A New Departure
- 5 Hopes Dashed
- 6 The Final Push
- PART II: THE WORKERS
- 7 The Men Who Built the Railroad
- 8 Working Conditions
- 9 Workers' Amenities
- 10 Mortality
- PART III: THE IRISH
- 11 The American Irish
- 12 The Men from Cork
- PART IV: EPILOGUE
- 13 Railroad-Government Relations
- 14 The Aftermath
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Panama Railroad Construction Account, 1850-1858
- Appendix 2: Panama Railroad Passage Account by Date of Ledger Entry, 1850-1855
- Appendix 3: Likely Cork Workhouse Emigrants to Panama, December 1853
- Appendix 4: Estimates of Mortality of the Inhabitants of Panama City, 1884-1893, and among the Workers Constructing the Panama Canal, 1881-1889
- Appendix 5: Petition of the Irish Laborers to the British Consul, Panama City, 1854
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index