Erased the untold story of the Panama Canal
Presentación del editor: "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...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
Harvard University Press
2019
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991010728889708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The port and the city: a Western Civilization story
- The lost towns of the Canal Zone
- Regulating the Panama Canal towns
- No slums in the Canal Zone: ICC authorities reach the decision to depopulate
- Depopulating the Canal Zone: the flooded towns
- Depopulating the Canal Zone: the towns not flooded
- A radically new geography
- Epilogue: Ruins and memories of a lost modernity.
