The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama

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The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (The Penguin History of American Life)

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 famiÂlies. 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.
Country USA
Brand Penguin Classics
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2010-03-30
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780143116783

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin Classics
Manufacturer	Penguin Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2010-03-30
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780143116783

The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (The Penguin History of American Life)

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