Erased : the untold story of the Panama Canal /

The untold history of the Panama Canal--from Panama's point of view. Sleuth and scholar, Marixa Lasso has uncovered a long-overlooked story: to build their Canal, Americans displaced 40,000 Panamanians and erased entire cities, only to convince the world they had brought modernity to the tropic...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lasso, Marixa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Cities and towns > Panama > Canal Zone > History.
Land use > Panama > Panama Canal > Planning.
Villes > Panama > Zone du canal de Panamá > Histoire.
Utilisation du sol > Panamá > Canal de Panamá > Planification.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
HISTORY > Latin America > Central America.
Cities and towns
Land use > Planning
Panama Canal (Panama) > History.
Canal Zone.
Canal de Panamá (Panamá) > Histoire.
Zone du canal de Panamá.
Canal Zone
Panama > Panama Canal
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The port and the city
  • The Canal Zone in 1904
  • A new regime for old zone towns
  • A zone without Panamanians
  • After the floods
  • Lost towns
  • The zone's new geography
  • Epilogue.

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