Erased : the untold story of the Panama Canal
(2019)
By:
Lasso, Marixa
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
972.875/LASSO,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019
©2019
©2019
DESCRIPTION
344 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780674984448, 0674984447, 9780674984448 40028891696
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction -- The port and the city -- The Canal Zone in 1904 -- A new regime for old zone towns -- A zone without Panamanians -- After the floods -- Lost towns -- The zone's new geography -- Epilogue
The untold history of the Panama Canal--from Panama's point of view. Sleuth and scholar, Marixa Lasso has uncovered a long-overlooked story: to build their Canal, Americans displaced 40,000 Panamanians and erased entire cities, only to convince the world they had brought modernity to the tropics.--