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Can I read The Canal Builders : Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal on EtoBox?
The Canal Builders : Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal by Julie Greene is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Canal Builders : Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal about?
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 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.
Who reads The Canal Builders : Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Julie Greene
- Publisher
- The Penguin Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781594202018
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.47 / 5 (107 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14