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The United States discovers Panama : the writings of soldiers, scholars, scientists, and scoundrels, 1850-1905 / edited by Michael LaRosa and Germán R. Mejía.
LIBRA F1569.C2 U75 2004
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relations.
- History.
- Panama Canal (Panama)--History--Sources.
- Panama Canal (Panama).
- Panama--History--Sources.
- Panama.
- Panama--Relations--United States--Sources.
- United States--Relations--Panama--Sources.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 311 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2004]
- Contents:
- A trip on the Panama Railroad
- Panama Railroad
- Darien Exploring Expedition, under command of Lieut. Isaac C. Strain
- Nicaragua : an exploration from ocean to ocean
- The new route through Chiriqui
- The secret of the strait
- Tehuantepec and the Eads Ship Railway
- Short cuts across the globe
- Projects for an isthmian canal
- The trans-isthmian canal problem
- The best isthmian canal
- The tropical renaissance
- The isthmus canal and American control
- Latin and Saxon America
- The diplomacy and law of the isthmian canals
- The strategic features of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea
- Non-intervention and the Monroe Doctrine
- The right and wrong of the Monroe Doctrine.
- Notes:
- Includes articles from the Atlantic monthly and Harper's magazine.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742527212
- 0742527220
- OCLC:
- 52858399
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