Seaway to the future:American social visions and the construction of the Panama Canal

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Missal Alexander
Published: University of Wisconsin Press,
Publisher Address: Madison, Wis.
Publication Dates: c2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Studies in American thought and culture
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Carrier Form: xii, 267 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780299229405 (cloth : alk. paper)
0299229408 (cloth : alk. paper)
Index Number: K747
CLC: K747.94
Call Number: K747.94/M678
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-259) and index.
Logistics of expansion : the long road to realization -- American triumph: explaining the canal project -- The engineered view: the Panama Canal in pictures -- Ideal community : the canal zone as an American utopia -- Celebrating the canal : the Panama-Pacific international exposition.