Seaway to the future:American social visions and the construction of the Panama Canal
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University of Wisconsin Press,
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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. |