02251cam a2200373Ma 4500 100770 100770 BJBSDDR 20230410143404.0 ta 080627s2009 nyu b 001 0 eng d 9781594202018 159420201X (OCoLC)ocn429495512 (OCoLC)429495512 LVB fre LVB spa nccz--- ncpn--- GRAL 114 F 1569 G811c 2009 972.875051 22 Greene, Julie, 1956- The canal builders : making America's empire at the Panama Canal / Julie Greene. New York : Penguin Press, 2009. 475 p., [8] p. de pl. : ill. Penguin history of American life Bibliogr. Prologue: 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. 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. Canaux Panamá Canal de Panamá Conception et construction Histoire. Canal de Panamá (Panamá) Histoire. Zone du canal de Panamá Histoire. Canal de Panamá (Panamá) Historia. 2715 lcc BK mfcruz 0 0 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-10 0 114 F 1569 G811c 2009 00000071084 2019-01-21 00:00:00 1 2019-01-21 BK