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Erased : the untold story of the Panama Canal / Marixa Lasso.
LIBRA F1569.C2 L27 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lasso, Marixa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land use.
- Planning.
- Cities and towns.
- History.
- Panama Canal (Panama)--History.
- Panama Canal (Panama).
- Cities and towns--Panama--Canal Zone--History.
- Canal Zone.
- Land use--Panama--Panama Canal--Planning.
- Land use--Planning.
- Panama--Panama Canal.
- Panama.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 344 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- 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 tropics.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674984448
- 0674984447
- OCLC:
- 1047523658
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