02153cam a2200325Ma 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087035002400102035002100126040001800147041000800165043002100173050002700194082001900221100002600240245008700266260003800353300003400391490003700425504001400462505027400476520086900750650007901619651004401698651004101742651004401783BJBSDDR20230410143404.0ta080627s2009 nyu b 001 0 eng d a9781594202018 a159420201X a(OCoLC)ocn429495512 a(OCoLC)429495512 aLVBbfrecLVB aspa anccz---ancpn---00a114 F 1569bG811c 200900a972.875051222 aGreene, Julie,d1956-14aThe canal builders :bmaking America's empire at the Panama Canal /cJulie Greene. aNew York :bPenguin Press,c2009. a475 p., [8] p. de pl. :bill.0 aPenguin history of American life aBibliogr. aPrologue: President Roosevelt's steam shovel -- A modern state in the tropics -- "As I am a true American" -- Silver lives -- Lay down your shovels -- Progressivism for the world -- The women's empire -- Law and order -- The riots of Cocoa Grove -- Hercules comes home. a 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 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"--Back cover.  6aCanauxzPanamázCanal de PanamáxConception et constructionxHistoire. 6aCanal de Panamá (Panamá)xHistoire. 6aZone du canal de PanamáxHistoire. 0aCanal de Panamá (Panamá)xHistoria.