Erased

Erased
Author: Marixa Lasso
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2019-02-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674984447

The Panama Canal's untold history—from the Panamanian point of view. 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. The Panama Canal set a new course for the modern development of Central America. Cutting a convenient path from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, it hastened the currents of trade and migration that were already reshaping the Western hemisphere. Yet the waterway was built at considerable cost to a way of life that had characterized the region for centuries. In Erased, Marixa Lasso recovers the history of the Panamanian cities and towns that once formed the backbone of the republic. Drawing on vast and previously untapped archival sources and personal recollections, Lasso describes the canal’s displacement of peasants, homeowners, and shop owners, and chronicles the destruction of a centuries-old commercial culture and environment. On completion of the canal, the United States engineered a tropical idyll to replace the lost cities and towns—a space miraculously cleansed of poverty, unemployment, and people—which served as a convenient backdrop to the manicured suburbs built exclusively for Americans. By restoring the sounds, sights, and stories of a world wiped clean by U.S. commerce and political ambition, Lasso compellingly pushes back against a triumphalist narrative that erases the contribution of Latin America to its own history.

Canal Record

Canal Record
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1912
Genre: Panama Canal (Panama)
ISBN:

Silver People

Silver People
Author: Margarita Engle
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0544109414

As the Panama Canal turns one hundred, Newbery Honor winner Margarita Engle tells the story of its creation in this powerful new YA historical novel in verse.

Canal Record

Canal Record
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 502
Release: 1913
Genre: Panama Canal (Panama)
ISBN:

The Canal Builders

The Canal Builders
Author: Julie Greene
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2009-02-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1101011556

A revelatory look at a momentous undertaking-from the workers' point of view 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 the 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.

The Panama Canal

The Panama Canal
Author: Frederic Jennings Haskin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 450
Release: 1913
Genre: Canal de Panama
ISBN: