The Canal Builders

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594202018
Total Pages : 520 pages
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Book Synopsis The Canal Builders by : Julie Greene

Download or read book The Canal Builders written by Julie Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Panama Canal told from the perspectives of its construction workers discusses Theodore Roosevelt's unpopular vision for Panama, the extensive resources that went into its building, and its role as a symbol of American power.

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Total Pages : 192 pages
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Book Synopsis The Canal Builders by : Anthony Burton

Download or read book The Canal Builders written by Anthony Burton and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal

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ISBN 13 : 0674984447
Total Pages : 353 pages
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Book Synopsis The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal by : Marixa Lasso

Download or read book The Lost Towns of the Panama Canal written by Marixa Lasso and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.--

The Canal Builders

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Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473870356
Total Pages : 231 pages
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Book Synopsis The Canal Builders by : Anthony Burton

Download or read book The Canal Builders written by Anthony Burton and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britain's canal system. The book, which was first published in the 1970s, is now republished here in a new fifth edition. It takes the reader from the middle of the eighteenth century, to the start of the railway age in the early nineteenth century. Anthony Burton has revised and improved the original text, using new material that he has found in archives since it was first published, and has added many extra illustrations. This is the remarkable story of the many groups of people who were responsible for building Britain's canal system. There were industrialists such as Josiah Wedgwood, who promoted canals to help his own industry, and speculators, financed the projects in the hope of a good return. The work was planned by engineers, some of whom, such as James Brindley and Thomas Telford, have become famous, while others have remained virtually unknown but still did magnificent work. This is also the story of the great, anonymous army of men who actually did the work the navvies. This was the first book ever to study the lives of these labourers in detail. Altogether it is an epic story of how the transport route that made the industrial revolution possible was built.'Well planned and well written There is no better introduction to the early canal age.' The EconomistLinks End Links Author End Author

Silver People

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544109414
Total Pages : 275 pages
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Download or read book Silver People written by Margarita Engle and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Panama Canal turns one hundred, Newbery Honor winner Margarita Engle tells the story of its creation in this powerful new YA historical novel in verse.

History of the Panama Canal

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Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Historical Publishing Company
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Total Pages : 760 pages
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Book Synopsis History of the Panama Canal by : Ira Elbert Bennett

Download or read book History of the Panama Canal written by Ira Elbert Bennett and published by Washington, D.C. : Historical Publishing Company. This book was released on 1915 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Canal Builders

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Publisher : New York, Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
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Download or read book The Canal Builders written by Robert Payne and published by New York, Macmillan. This book was released on 1959 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Canal Pioneers

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Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473860490
Total Pages : 209 pages
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Download or read book The Canal Pioneers written by Anthony Burton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the ninteenth century. This is a very long history: stones for the pyramids of Egypt were brought to the site by canal and one of the most imposing canal systems ever built, the Grand Canal of China, was begun in the sixth century BC. Development after the end of the Roman Empire was slow, but saw the steady improvement of river navigations through locks Ð the mitre gates were actually first designed by Leonardo da Vinci. The modern age of canals that cross summits began in France, and the most famous of these early waterways was the magnificent Canal du Midi, the brainchild of Pierre-Paul Riquet, completed in 1681. It was a visit to this canal, when he was a teenager on the Grand Tour, that inspired the Duke of Bridgewater to build his famous canal that inspired a rush of canal construction in Britain. BritainÕs canals became the essential transport route that made the countryÕs industrial revolution possible, thanks to engineers such as James Brindley, William Jessop and Thomas Telford. It was a period of intensive construction that lasted for fifty years from 1760. It saw many innovations from the use of cast iron for bridges and aqueducts, to inclined planes and vertical lifts to move boats from one canal level to another. The nineteenth century also saw extensive canal systems developing in North America, such as the famous Erie Canal, and culminated in two great ship canals at Suez and Panama. The book tells an exciting story of canal development and the many men who made it possible.

History of the Panama Canal

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ISBN 13 : 9780243655250
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Download or read book History of the Panama Canal written by Ira E. Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dying to Better Themselves

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ISBN 13 : 9789766404574
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Dying to Better Themselves written by Olive Senior and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic story of the involvement of the tiny islands of the West Indies in providing the work force for the construction of the Panama Canal (1904-1914) and before that, the Panama Railroad (1850-1855), and the French attempt under de Lesseps to build the Panama Canal (1881-1889). Written by a West Indian, the book allows the voices of the participants to tell their stories alongside the official accounts.