Opening book details…
Can I read The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal: A Forgotten Story of Tropical Modernity on EtoBox?
The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal: A Forgotten Story of Tropical Modernity by Marixa Lasso is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal: A Forgotten Story of Tropical Modernity about?
The Panama Canal's untold history—from the Panamanian point of view. Sleuth and scholar Marixa Lasso recounts how the canal’s American builders displaced 40,000 residents and erased entire towns in the guise of bringing modernity to the tropics. The Panama Canal set a new course for the modern development of Central America. Cutting a convenient path from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, it hastened the currents of trade and migration that were already reshaping the Western hemisphere. Yet th
Who reads The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal: A Forgotten Story of Tropical Modernity?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Marixa Lasso
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674984448
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Latin American History, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
More by Marixa Lasso
Browse all works by Marixa Lasso
Similar books
- Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal The Untold Story of the Panama Canal — Marixa Lasso (2019)
- The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin History of American Life) — Julie Greene (2009)
- Panama Lost? : U.S. Hegemony, Democracy, and the Canal — Prof. Peter M. Sánchez (2007)
- Building the Panama Canal — Sue Vander Hook (2010)
- Building the Panama Canal (Perspectives on Modern World History) — Sylvia Engdahl, book editor (2012)
- The Panama Canal (Engineering Wonders) — Stefoff, Rebecca, 1951- author (2016)