Can I read The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin History of American Life) on EtoBox?

The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (Penguin History of American Life) by Greene, Julie is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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

A groundbreaking history of the Panama Canal offers a revelatory workers-eye view of the momentous undertaking and shows how it launched the American century The Panama Canal has long been celebrated as a triumph of American engineering and technology. In The Canal Builders, Julie Greene reveals that this emphasis obscures a far more remarkable element of the canal's constructionthe tens of thousands of workingmen and -women who traveled from around the world to build it. Drawing on research from around the globe, Greene explores the human dimensions of the Panama Canal story, revealing how it transformed perceptions of American empire at the dawn of the twentieth century. For a project that would secure America's position as a leading player on the world stage, the Panama Canal had controversial beginnings. When President Theodore Roosevelt seized rights to a stretch of Panama soon after the country gained its independence, many Americans saw it as an act of scandalous...

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

Author

Greene, Julie

Publisher

Penguin Press HC, The

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780143116783

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.4 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14